FLORIS Franz (attributed to) - Lot 1

FLORIS Franz (attributed to) Antwerp 1516 - id.; 1570 Diana and her bathing companions surprised by Actaeon (Ovid, Metamorphoses; Book III, 138 - 172) Oil on panel. Oak. Horizontal boards. Parquetage (some restorations, notably at the junction of the boards) H. 55 - L. 77 cm Digital bibliography: probably the painting reproduced on the RKD website, Imageslite, Frans Floris (I) / BD/RKD/0306 - ONS/Religion. Mythologie.Allegory and Literature, and RKD.FOLDER.15972 A version on the same theme, Diana and Actaeon, by Frans Floris, with similar figures but in a different composition, is catalogued by Max J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting; Vol. XIII; Frans Floris; Fig. 140 & p. 85(Plate 74) (New York 1975)