The triumph of Galatea

Girolamo da Treviso the Younger (1497-1544)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1535
Height:
41.1 cm  (16 3/16 in.)
Width:
27.7 cm  (10 15/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white over black chalk

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1973.46.1]

Description

Triton blowing shell horn.

Iconclass

92H331
Triton blows on a twisted sea shell to raise or calm the waves
92I2278
triumph of Galatea

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Conch-shell trumpet [4389]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3968