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Description

No one insults a goddess and remains unpunished. Tired and parched, Latona, the mother of Apollo and Diana, halts to quench her thirst at a pond. Some peasants working nearby, however, prevent her from doing so. Latona curses them by changing them into frogs and condemning them to spend eternity in the mire. Two peasants already have a frog’s head.

Latona and the Lycian Peasants

c. 1605

Accession Number

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Dimensions

height 37 cm x width 56 cm

Classification

Painting

Museum

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands