# The Sibyl [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DROST, Willem]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 98 x 78 cm ## Commentary The Sibyl c. 1654 Oil on canvas, 98 x 78 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture was painted by the young artist when he was still in Amsterdam and very much under the influence of Rembrandt. Presumably, the title The Sibyl was chosen on analogy with the similarly posed and comparably dressed figure in Domenichino's celebrated <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/domenich/1/sibyl.html'\)" href="/html/d/domenich/1/sibyl.html">Cumaean Sibyl</a> of about 1616-17. One of the many painted copies of that picture was probably seen by Drost in the Netherlands. Drost appears to have chosen the subject as in his erotic Bathsheba\) as a mere pretext for the image of an erotic creature. ## Related artworks - [Bathsheba]() - [Flora \(detail\)]() - [Flora]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Roman Charity \(detail\)]() - [Roman Charity]() - [Self-Portrait]() - [The Vision of Daniel]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()