Callisto1.0086_Honthorst

Backer, Jacob Adriaensz (1608-1651); formerly ascribed to Gerrit von Honthorst, "Callisto and Jupiter" (ca. 1650), oil on canvas. Sold as Von Honthorst in 1764, then untraced (according to Reid), sold at Christie's London, 22 April 1994, lot 152 as Von Honthorst; recently attributed to Jacob A. Backer and sold as such at Sotheby's New York, 8 June 2010, lot 482.

As described in Ovid Metamorphoses, 2.425-40, Jupiter's subterfuge was not unresisted by Callisto. But this moment is at the beginning of his approach

References include
de Witt, David A. 2007. Jan van Noordt: painter of history and portraits in Amsterdam. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 124

Sotheby.com on Lot 482.

van den Brink, Peter. 2009. Jacob Backer 1608/9-1651: exhibition catalogue. Amsterdam. P. 244, no. A118.

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