The scene represents a passage from Ovid´s Metamophoses. After killing the monstrous Python, Apollo falls victim to one of Cupid´s arrows, which inflames his impossible love of Jupiter´s daughter, Daphne. As in other scenes from the same series, this painting´s subject is the power of love, which dominates even the gods. As a collaborator on paintings made for the Torre de la Parada, Cornelis de Vos almost exactly follows the sketch by Rubens (P2040), who made the models for all of these paintings. Here the figure of the figure of the god is based on the classical sculpture of Apollo Belvedere. This work intended for the Torre de la Parada entered the Prado Museum in 1849.