''Perseus Freeing Andromeda'' is a 1611 oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch

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Joachim Wtewael Joachim Anthoniszoon Wtewael (; also known as Uytewael ) (1566 – 1 August 1638) was a Dutch Mannerist painter and draughtsman, as well as a highly successful flax merchant, and town councillor of Utrecht. Wtewael was one of the leadin ...

. Since 1982 it has been in the collection of the

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. A preparatory drawing for it also survives in the

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, reprising the pose in the same artist's ''St Sebastian Bound to a Tree'' for Andromeda. In the final painting he used a less curving and more supple pose for Andromeda.Ben Broos (ed.), ''Great Dutch Paintings from America'', Zwolle, Waanders, 1990, 562 p., p. 491, Catalogue Number: 73 - catalogue of an exhibition at the Mauritshuis in The Hague and the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts

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