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Destruction of Niobe's Children 16th Century Van Huysum's paintings often bear

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Van Huysum's paintings often bear a double date

it is a version of the composition known from works by or derived from Magnasco now in Cardiff

master of the choristers at Lincoln Cathedral

A frequently quoted account by the French art theorist and early owner of the work

An ardent Royalist during the Civil War he fled to France and served in the French army

Destruction of Niobe's Children 16th Century Van Huysum's paintings often bearOnofri was a pupil in Rome of Gaspard Dughet, whose style he imitated with great success. In 1689 he moved to Florence to work for prince Ferdinando de' Medici. The scene shows the moment in Ovid's Metamorphoses VI when Apollo and Diana slay all of Niobe's fourteen children to avenge their mother Leto, to whom Niobe has declared herself superior on account of her fecundity.

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