Bacchus and Nymphs in Landscape (detail)

1645 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

mythological

Bacchus enjoys a flute of red wine, while the naked nymphs in the foreground receive fruits and vegetables from two heavily laden putti, one posing like a little Atlas with a basket on his head.

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Bacchus and Nymphs in Landscape (detail)

About the Artist

Abraham van Cuylenborch

1610 – 1658

Dutch painter. He completed his early training in Utrecht in the studio of the leading Dutch Italianate painter of his day, Cornelis van Poelenburgh. The highly successful style of Poelenburgh was to exert an influence on the young Cuylenborch which was to remain with him throughout his career. He is recorded being made an independent master of the Guild of Saint Luke in Utrecht in 1639.

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