Neptune before a niche with Amphitrite (?)
Also titled Neptunus voor een nis met Amphitrite (?)
Francesco Salviati (Florence, 1510–1563)
1520 - 1563
- Medium
- paper, ink, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 318 mm x width 222 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- I.Q. van Regteren Altena Bequest, 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
For Neptune’s resting arm, the painter Salviati was here inspired by the right arm of Michelangelo’s statue Night. An illustration of this sculpture on Lorenzo de’ Medici’s tomb in Florence is also on view in this gallery. Other sketches also show just how closely Salviati studied Michelangelo’s sculptures. In this drawing he experimented with the pose of Neptune’s hand.
