The return of Neptune

Copley, John Singleton (1738-1815)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1753
Height:
69.9 cm  (27 1/2 in.)
Width:
113.0 cm  (44 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
United States

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    American paintings and sculpture[Museum inv. no.: 59.198]

Description

In the center, Neptune is on a chariot pulled by four horses, surrounded by one naked man, three naked women, and two putti (one of them with wings); on the left possibly a satyr blowing a conch-shell trumpet.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Conch-shell trumpet [4389]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

3440