Diana and her Companions

Diana and her Companions by Johannes Vermeer
Artist
Johannes Vermeer
Date
c.1653 - c.1654
Style
Baroque
Genre
Mythological painting
Location
Mauritshuis
"Diana and her Companions" is a notable mythological painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, likely created in the early to mid-1650s and housed at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. This Baroque-style work may be Vermeer’s earliest surviving piece, with some scholars dating it before Christ in the House of Martha and Mary. The painting showcases meticulous Oil technique on Canvas, featuring mythological figures in an elegant composition, characteristic of Vermeer’s refined use of light and detail in his mythological and allegorical works.

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