BOECKHORST, Jan van
(b. ca. 1604, Münster or Rees, d. 1668, Antwerpen)

Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes

c. 1655
Oil on canvas, 124 x 188 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The extraordinary decorative qualities of Boeckhorst's late work are perhaps most apparent in the pictures of Old Testament or allegorical and mythological subjects executed in landscape format. The present work is an example of the paintings with mythological subjects.