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Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto is a 1634 painting by the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. It is now on show in the Salm-Salm princely collection in the Wasserburg Anholt in Isselburg Germany.It shows two episodes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses in both of which someone is punished by the goddess Diana for a sexual offence. On the left Actaeon is punished for seeing the goddess naked by being turned into a stag and killed by his own hounds.

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