The Cog Boat Borne by Mercury, Hercules, Minerva and Neptune
Also titled Het koggeschip gedragen door Mercurius, Hercules, Minerva en Neptunus
Artus Quellinus (I) (Antwerp, 1609–1668)
c. 1651 - c. 1652
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 31.7 cm x width 29.5 cm x depth 24 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Visible traces of the sculptor can be discerned in this freely modelled bozzetto (clay sketch) for the crowning element of a pump: fingerprints, sharp, deep grooves and tiny holes made by the sculpting tools to suggest depth, and short parallel lines from a serrated spatula to enliven the surface. These accents are comparable to hatching in drawings.
