Erysichthon verkoopt zijn dochter Mestra
Jan Havicksz. Steen
1650 - 1660
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
7.5; 64; 66
About this artwork
signature: ‘JSteen’
Art Historical Context
Jan Havicksz. Steen’s *Erysichthon verko zijn dochter Mestra*Erysichthon Sells His Daughter Mestra painted between 1650 and 1660, captures a vivid mythological moment in the lively style of the Dutch Golden Age. Signed with the artist’s distinctive “JSteen,” this oil canvas (66 × 64 cm) exemplifies’s mastery of genre painting, where classical tales from Ovid’s *Metamorphoses* are reimagined through the lens of everyday 17th-century Dutch life Erysichthon, by Demeter with insatiable hunger after felling her sacred tree, desperately sells his shape-shifting daughter Mestra to sustain himself—a p...