Dirk Dalens: Heron hunt

The painting depicts two peregrine falcons attacking a blue heron, while a group of shepherds look on.

All the other paintings in the room have metamorphosis as their theme, but no one has yet succeeded in finding any connection between this bucolic scene and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Perhaps it should be seen as a forerunner of Dirk Dalens’s later, non-narrative Arcadian landscapes.

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