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Latona and the Lycian Peasants
Also titled Latona en de Lycische boeren
Jan Brueghel (I) (Brussels, 1568–1625)
c. 1605
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 37 cm x width 56 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
No one insults a goddess and remains unpunished. Tired and parched, Latona, the mother of Apollo and Diana, halts to quench her thirst at a pond. Some peasants working nearby, however, prevent her from doing so. Latona curses them by changing them into frogs and condemning them to spend eternity in the mire. Two peasants already have a frog’s head.
