Diana and Endymion

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Diana and Endymion

Johann Michael Rottmayr (Austrian, 1654–1730)LinkedCulture matchlcp-9c64d6849524

Date
c. 1695
Medium
Oil on canvas
Culture
Austria
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
12876

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Johann Michael Rottmayr's scenes from Greek and Roman mythology in the collection of the Art Institute may have belonged to a series of seven paintings, each representing a celestial body. Here, the lunar goddess Diana, wearing a crescent moon headpiece, delicately embraces her beloved shepherd Endymion. Her rich blue cloak flies out behind her as if caught in a cosmic wind and her shining eyes fix on the cherub behind him who reminds her to keep quiet. In fact, there is no need to worry, as she has placed Endymion in an eternal sleep so that she can gaze lovingly upon him each night.

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Gift of Jacob S. Sherman
Provenance
Unknown Illinois banker; given by banker to Jacob S. Sherman, Chicago, during the 1930s as collateral for a loan that was never repaid [according to Robert Parker Sherman, son of Jacob S. Sherman, telephone conversation with Martha Wolff, 23 July 2003, transcribed in curatorial file]; given by Jacob S. Sherman (died 1961) to the Art Institute, 1961.

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Object type
AAT300033618

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