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EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
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Diana and Her Companion

Diana and Her Companion
Johannes Vermeer, 'Diana and Her Companions' ca. 1653-54. Vermeer's early painting 'Diana and Her Companions' may have been influenced Rembrandt's Bathseba, Mauritsbuis, The Hague


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In his “Diana and Her Companions’ Vermeer depicted the goddess gathered with four of her attendants at the edge of a forest. The scene is more chaste in Vermeer’s painting than in its portrayal by other artists, who tended to envision it as a kind of female bacchanal, with Diana and her nymphs cavorting nakedly in the woods. Here, Diana and her companions are fully clothed. Diana wears a golden dress cinched at the waist with an animal skin. She perches on a boulder while one of her nymphs bends down to bathe her left foot, which is held out slightly. The subject, its innocent depiction and some aspects of the arrangement of figures are similar to Van Loo’s ‘Diana and Her Nymphs’, around 1650, and this is one reason that some experts think Vermeer studied with Van Loo in Amsterdam. Yet Vermeer’s painting is quite reminiscent of Rembrandt’s ‘Bathsheba at Her bath (ca.1654) In Rambrandt’s picture the main figure is nude, facing towards the viewer’s left, and has only one attendant, while in Vermeer’s ‘Diana’ the goddess is clothed, is facing the viewer right, and is surrounded by her four nymphs. ~ page 72

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