Hygeia, Goddess of Health

Datec. 1615

Object PlaceFlanders, Netherlands, Western Europe, Europe

MediumOil on oak panel

ClassificationsPaintings

Dimensions29 1/4 × 41 13/16 inches (74.3 × 106.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reichhold

Object number44.266

DescriptionThree quarter length figure of a woman, facing left, wearing red and white drapery with blue sash. Her left arm, shoulder and breast are bare. Her head is bent forward and her brown hair is braided and coiled on top of her head. With her right hand, she pours liquid from a gold container into the mouth of a snake twined around her left arm.

On View

On view

Locations

Exhibition Demo Museum (Hanover Square), Level 3, European Paintings, Gallery 4

ProvenanceAntwerp, Collection Jeremias Wildens, 1653 (?); Antwerp, Collection Count Charles de Proli; Brussels, auction de Proli, 1785; Amsterdam, auction P. de Smet van Alphen, 1810; Lokeren, auction H. Franken, 1830; Brussels, De Vis, agent for Charles J. Nieuwenhuyse; Paris, auction Nieuwenhuyse, 1840; Brussels, Collection Joseph Allard; Brussels, Collection Senator Prosper Crabbe; Paris, auction Crabbe (Galerie Sedelmeyer), Paris, 1890, lot 47; Paris, Galerie Charpentier (1936); London, Martin B. Ascher (dealer); New York, Schaeffer Galleries, Inc. (dealer); Birmingham, Collection Mr. & Mrs. Henry Reichhold, given by Mrs. Reichold to the DIA in 1944.