# Diana and Actaeon [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STALBEMT, Adriaen van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 55 x 77 cm ## Commentary Ovid describes at length \(Met. 3:138-253\) how the young prince Actaeon, hunting in the forest, stumbled accidentally upon the grotto where Diana and her companion were bathing. To punish him for the glimpse of divine nudity, the goddess turned him into a stag. He was pursued and torn to pieces by his own hounds. This story is set by Stalbemt in a wooded landscape. ## Related artworks - [A Collector's Cabinet \(detail\)]() - [A Collector's Cabinet \(detail\)]() - [A Collector's Cabinet]() - [Allegory of the Month of August]() - [Forest Landscape with Peasants]() - [Landscape with Fables]() - [Paul and Barnabas at Lystra]() - [River landscape]() - [The Building of the Tabernacle]() - [The Feast of the Gods]() - [Winter]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()