Orpheus and the Maenads

“Orpheus and the Maenads”

Oil on panel c1730 from the Circle of Pieter Andreas Rysbrack

Pieter Andreas Rysbrack  was born in Paris in 1690, dying in London in 1748. He was a painter of genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes and animals. The son and pupil of Pieter Rysbrack, he was master of a studio in Antwerp in 1709.

His work is represented in the Museums of Sibiu and the Lichstenstein Museum, Vienna.

Biblio: Bénézit: Dictionary of Artists.

Dimensions: 480 x 400