While out hunting, Actaeon intruded on the place where Diana was bathing, surrounded by her nymphs. This chance encounter sealed his fate as he was transformed into a deer and devoured by his own hounds. In the present work Velázquez’s son-in-law Martínez del Mazo copied one of the most famous of Titian’s so-called poesie. The subject led to that painting and its pair, Diana and Callisto, being generally known as “the baths”.