# Neptune before a niche with Amphitrite (?)

- By: Francesco Salviati (Florence, 1510–1563)
- Date: 1520 - 1563
- Medium: paper, ink, chalk
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 318 mm x width 222 mm
- Credit line: I.Q. van Regteren Altena Bequest, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1981-24--6ece9824ccfb9b68724ffc879c6b15c8)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/FocUP/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.