River God

Unknown

ca. 1700 · Terracotta; marble and gilt-bronze base · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This and another pendant Neptune (1973.184.2a, b) are models, probably for much larger garden figures. They are amusingly distorted imitations of types current in French baroque classicism, in the manner of Girardon and Coysevox but gone awry.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1700

Medium

Terracotta; marble and gilt-bronze base

Culture

probably Flemish

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, 1973