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Ceiling painting with Diana and her companions
Also titled Plafondschildering met Diana en haar gezellinnen
Gerard de Lairesse (Liège, 1641–1711)
c. 1676 - c. 1682
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- diameter 280 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
De Lairesse painted this ceiling for the Great Hall of Soestdijk Palace, which William III used as his hunting lodge at the time. The scene of Diana, the goddess of the hunt, alludes to this. De Lairesse extended the architecture of the hall with this illusionistic painting of a richly decorated dome. The decorative programme of the hall thus constituted a unity, an ambition that would set the tone for art of the 18th century.
