The wall canvas on the right, which was painted by Dirk Dalens, illustrates Ovid’s story of the Calydonian boar hunt. Angry at King Oeneus of Calydon, the goddess Diana sent a wild boar, which laid waste to his fields and attacked his livestock. Oeneus’s son Meleager invited heroes from the four corners of the globe to join the hunt for the boar. One of them was the beautiful huntress Atalanta, with whom Meleager fell in love. The painting shows Meleager administering the coup de grâce, shortly after Atalanta had wounded the animal with an arrow. In the tragic sequel, Meleager gave the boar’s head to Atalanta. This led to an quarrel among the hunters, and in the heat of the moment Meleager stabbed two of his uncles to death. Resentful over the loss of her brother, Meleager’s mother engineered her son’s demise, after which she took her life by falling onto a sword. The grief of Meleager’s younger sisters moved Diana to turn them into birds, rather than see them suffer.