# Jupiter Notices Callisto [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BERCHEM, Nicolaes]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 129 x 168 cm ## Commentary Nicolaes Berchem was a landscapist. However, he produced a number of works between 1648 and 1650 in which figures dominate the composition. Later he produced several more pictures with figures so large that the landscape is no more than decor. The Callisto is one of the most impressive of these works. The beautiful nymph Callisto, exhausted from the hunt, has lain down to rest in a glade. Her robust figure fills the entire foreground. Her right hand rests on a deer and a hare she has brought back from the hunt. She is elegant and coquettish, and she attracts the attention of the lecherous Jupiter, supreme ruler of the gods, who passes by on a cloud in the background. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 38 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/mozart/mozart\_k\_551.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony in C Major \(Jupiter-Symphony\) K 551</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [A Harbour Scene]() - [A Southern Harbour Scene]() - [A Standing Shepherd]() - [A Young Woman Tuning a Lute]() - [An Italianate Landscape]() - [Animal Study]() - [Evening Landscape]() - [Evening Landscape with Drovers and their Animals]() - [Herdsmen and Herds at a Waterfall]() - [Hunters Resting]() - [Italian Landscape at Sunset]() - [Italian Landscape with Bridge]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()