WOUTERS, Frans
(b. 1612, Lier, d. 1659, Antwerpen)

Landscape with Diana Resting

1640s
Oil on wood, 86 x 91 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

After working as court painter to the German Emperor Ferdinand II and Charles I of England, Frans Wouters settled permanently in Antwerp in 1641. From that moment his landscape compositions, often populated with mythological figures, were subject to the influence of Rubens's later work.




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