Departure of the Amazons  1620

This canvas and its pendant (opposite) date to the 1620s, when Deruet was the chief painter in the duchy of Lorraine. A specialist in battle and hunting scenes after the antique, he had trained with Jacques Bellange and in Rome with Agostine Tassi. [br] Notes: This painting and its pendant, Triumph of the Amazons (1976.100.7), form a set with two pictures in the museum a...