Nereid with Triton, siren, and hippocampi

Falconetto, Angelo (1507-1567)

Romano, Giulio (1499-1546) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

ca. 1563

Height:

23.0 cm  (9 1/16 in.)

Width:

30.5 cm  (12 in.)

Technique / Medium:

etching on paper

Place of creation:

Italia

Description

"A nereid is seated precariously on the back of Triton as they glide through the rolling waves. Riding a snub-nosed dolphin, a small Cupid holds on to Triton's fin and gazes up toward the sea nymph's unnecessarily exposed bottom. Behind them, a twin-tailed siren, who clutches the baton with which she can still the waters, grasps the neck of a bounding hippocampus, while a putto flutters forward to place a wreath on her. The two hippocampi appear to whinny, perhaps to accompany Triton, who puffs out his cheeks to blow his famous horn." -- Bernard Barryte

Iconclass

92I2(+5)
Nereids, daughters of Nereus; sea-nymphs (+ non-aggressive, friendly or neutral activities and relationships)
92H331
Triton blows on a twisted sea shell to raise or calm the waves
92I73(+5)
Sirens (classical mythology) (+ non-aggressive, friendly or neutral activities and relationships)
25FF62(+5)
sea-horse, hippocamp, 'hippocampus', (horse/fish) (mythological hybrid monster) (+ animal(s) in motion; positions, expressions of animals)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Conch-shell trumpet [4389]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Nagler, G.K., et al. Die Monogrammisten und diejenigen bekannten und unbekannten Künstler aller Schulen, welche sich zur Bezeichnung ihrer Werke eines figürlichen Zeichens, der initialen des Namens, der Abbreviatur desselben, &c., bedient haben ... (München: G. Franz, 1858) vol. 1, 451, n. 1033.

Paola Marini. Palladio e Verona, 2nd ed. (Verona: Neri Pozza, 1980) 275-76, cat. XI.36

Massari, Stefania. Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit: Opere grafiche autografe di collaborazione e bottega (Rome: Filli Palombi, 1993) 287-88, no. 279. ISBN: 9788876216053

Barryte, Bernard, et al. Myth, allegory, and faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of Mannerist prints (Stanford, CA: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2015) 404, cat. 59. ISBN: 9788836630882.

RIdIM record id

5468