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Water Terrace with Statues and Fountains in a Park
Also titled Waterpartij met beelden en gebouwen in een park
Isaac de Moucheron (Amsterdam, 1667–1744)
1700 - 1744
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 8.5 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
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
In this idealized, symmetrical garden, your eye is led past a pond with sphinx-shaped spouts and majestic triumphal arches to a fountain with the sea god Neptune seated in his chariot pulled by four horses. The painter De Moucheron created this work for Amsterdam’s Hortus Botanicus. The plants in the foreground near the balustrade are from South Africa and the Canary Islands and could be found as well in the botanical garden.
