Landscape with Diana and her Nymphs surprised by Actaeon
Michele Pagano (Naples c.1697 - Naples 1732)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1728 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1219 x 914 mm (48 x 36 in)
Place of origin
Naples
Order this imageCollection
Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
NT 1530143.1
Caption
According to the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Actaeon, whilst out hunting in the woods, accidentally stumbles upon the secluded bathing place of Diana, the chaste huntress, goddess of the sky and earth, and her attendant nymphs. The outraged goddess immediately avenges herself by transforming Actaeon into a stag to be devoured by his own hounds.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (oval), Landscape with Diana and her Nymphs surprised by Actaeon by Michele Pagano (Naples c.1697 - Naples 1732), signed and dated M. Pagano 1728.
Provenance
Purchased by Ralph Stawell Dutton (1898–1985), 8th & last Lord Sherborne, from Old Master Galleries (Wengraf), London (24 April 1961); bequeathed to the National Trust by Ralph Stawell Dutton, with the rest of the collections, house, gardens and estate of Hinton Ampner.
Credit line
Hinton Ampner, The Ralph Dutton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Michele Pagano (Naples c.1697 - Naples 1732), artist