The goddess Calypso rescues Odysseus

The subject is unusual and disputed. In Sluijter-Seiffert’s study of the artist, it is simply referred to as “Landscape with Nymph” and it has also been called “Scene from the scapegoat” despite the fact that dete does not exist such a scene in the Bible’s portrayal of the scapegoat. The painting can imagine the scene in Odyssén when the goddess Calypso rescues Odysseus, whose son Telemachos she fell in love with. However, there is no comparable interpretation of the subject in Dutch painting. A second version of this efficient composition was registered in Samling Schonborn in Vienna in 1896, (No. 66). It was later sold in Dresden in 1912 (No. 43); it is unknown where it exists today. The painting in the Hallwylan collection is likely to be dated to the years around 1630, taking into account the yppy female figure. Poelenburgh had in 1627 coincided with Rubens and his female ideal came too long to characterize his painting. - “- The subject-matter is unusal and use In sluijter, Seiffert 's study of the scene it is simsplsy” with a Nymph “and it has the same as the” A Scene from the Flood, “” there is no "in the Biblical of the artist Flood. It mayn show the scene from The Odyssey, ion mayUlysses is red by the goddess Calypso, It has fallen in love with his son Telemachos. However, no However dition of the scene is known in Dutch art. A second versíon of this second was in the Schonborn collection in Vienna 1896 (no.66) Later it vas in Dresden 1912 (lot 43) but its gift enable Judging from the buxom Jud, this Judcan be dated to about 1630. In 1627 Poelenburgh had met Rubens, In iniubne ideals was to dominate his In for a long time thereafter.