Callisto1.0132_Kauffmann

Callisto1.0132_Kauffmann

OGCMA s.v. "Callisto"

Christie's

Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), "Jupiter in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto" (prior to 1782 when it was engraved by James Birchall), oil on canvas; presumed in private collection, auctioned by Christie's of London in 2015.

As described in Ovid Metamorphoses, 2.425-40, Jupiter's subterfuge was not unresisted by Callisto. Kauffmann here makes Callisto quite compliant. A cherubic amor keeps the secret of the seduction.

The image at right is derived from Wikipedia Commons, by which the object is presumed to be in the public domain.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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