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Nudes in a Landscape (possibly Diana and Callisto)
About the Artwork
In this drawing, the Amsterdam painter Cornelis van Poelenburch combined a loose, monochromatic ink wash landscape with red chalk figures in the foreground. The figures depict the story of Diana and Callisto, when Callisto’s pregnancy with Jupiter's child is revealed to the chaste goddess of the hunt Diana. Van Poelenburch began to draw with red chalk during a journey to Italy, where it was a more common artist’s medium than in the Netherlands. Back in Amsterdam, he kept red chalk as part of his practice, perhaps to call attention to his Italian sojourn.
Provenance
Private Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands March 4, 2019: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Cornelis van Poelenburch (Dutch, 1594/95–1667)
- Date
- c. 1642–67
- Medium
- black ink wash over graphite, and red chalk on cream antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 25.7 x 33.3 x 0.3 cm (10 1/8 x 13 1/8 x 1/8 in.); Image: 19.5 x 25.3 cm (7 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.11
More by Cornelis van Poelenburch in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011297
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