WTEWAEL, Joachim
(b. 1566, Utrecht, d. 1638, Utrecht)

The Golden Age (detail)

1605
Oil on copper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The painting is rich in references to the great masters both of the past and of Wtewael's time, for example the group of figures on the left, crowned by the curvaceous woman reaching up to the arbour, recalls sculptural ensembles by the Flemish-born Giambologna and his Dutch follower Adriaen de Vries.