Landscape with Alexander and Diogenes

Netherlandish School. Oil painting on canvas, Landscape with Alexander and Diogenes, Netherlandish School, early 17th century. A panoramic mountainous landscape with castle on far left in middle distance. Tall trees in foreground on the right and a man on horseback in foreground centre. Other groups of figures and horses are clustered in the landscape behind on the left. The scene depicted is related in Plutarch (33:14) when Alexander the Great has dismounted from his horse, Bucephalus, and stands before the cynic Greek philospher Diogenes and his tub asking him to request any favour. Diogenes, who despised wordly possessions, simply asks him to step aside as he is shading him from the sun. Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset (Accredited Museum)