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Diana at the Chase
Augustus Wall Callcott·c. 1812
Historical Context
Diana at the Chase from around 1812 by Augustus Wall Callcott is a mythological landscape depicting the goddess of the hunt in a woodland setting. The hunting Diana allowed Callcott to combine landscape painting with the classical figure tradition. Callcott's oil technique drew on Dutch marine and landscape traditions to produce silvery atmospheric effects and careful observation of light reflected from water surfaces, combined with the romantic breadth of composition fashionable in early...
Technical Analysis
The woodland setting frames the mythological figure, with the landscape rendered in Callcott's atmospheric manner while the figure adds classical narrative content.
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