Louis-Michel van Loo: Diana in a landscape (1739)


(Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain)

A painting by the French artist Louis-Michel van Loo (1707-1771). This mythological scene shows Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon. The crescent moon on her head is her symbol and she is als accompanied by her bow and arrows and a hunting horn. Painting from 1739.