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Triton Blowing a Conch Shell
Also titled Triton, blazend op een kinkhoorn
Adriaen de Vries (The Hague, ca. –ca.)
c. 1615 - c. 1617
- Medium
- bronze (metal)
- Classification
- figure
- Dimensions
- height 157 cm x width 88 cm x depth 80 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This triton, a sea creature in the retinue of the god Neptune, is one of sixteen sculptures that together once formed part of a monumental fountain. The huge complex stood in front of Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark, but in 1659 Swedish soldiers took the statues as war booty to Stockholm. The triton originally perched on the edge of a basin, and water spouted from the shell he is blowing.
