Actaeon

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Workshop of Jean Jeans the Younger, Diana and Actaeon, from a set of Ovid's Metamorphoses, late 17th-early 18th c., tapestry, 330.2 x 462.3 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York

Actaeon was a talented hunter who one day say the goddess Artemis/Diana bathing in a spring.  Angry, she turned him into a stag, and he was killed by his own dogs.