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Jupiter, Disguised as Diana, Seducing the Nymph Callisto
Jacob de Wit specialized in decorative paintings for town and country houses. He designed entire ensembles, with large paintings and overdoors set in panels. He decided where the paintings were to be placed and adapted the compositions and the fall of light accordingly. This painting and its pendant (to the left of the mantelpiece) were made for the country house of an Amsterdam citizen situated a…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/92B1215
- Loenen aan de Vecht
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/92B1215
- Loenen aan de Vecht
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1727
- 1727
Place-Time
- second quarter 18th century
Provenance
- Inv.;…; Commissioned by Jan Baptist de Surmont, Lord van Vlooswijk en Cromwijk (1688-1745), Loenen aan de Vecht and Amsterdam, for his house in Loenen aan de Vecht;{Mandle 1975, p. 17} his widow, Margaretha Catharina Cromhout (1688-1755), Loenen aan de Vecht and Amsterdam; her daughter, Elisabeth Louise de Surmont van Vlooswijk (1725-1779), Amsterdam;{Te Rijdt 1997, p. 62, note 5.};…; the house, Loenen aan de Vecht, was demolished before 1837; ...; purchased from the dealer John Bell of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, by the dealer D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, 1954;{RKD, The Hague, inv. no. 460, Kunsthandel D.A. Hoogendijk Archive, no. OS 1621a-b.} from whom, fl. 7,500, with SK-A-3886, to the museum, 1955
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.10033
- SK-A-3885
Extent
- height 240 cm
- width 205 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1727
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:15:40.822Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:57.651Z