Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite

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The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite

The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite (or Birth of Venus) by

putti
flying over their heads.

This mythological scene clearly depicts

Amphitrite, or Galatea.[1]

It seems that the oldest recorded title is il trionfo di Nettunno by Giovanni Pietro Bellori (d. 1698). The matter was the subject of considerable scholarly debate in the 1960s, and Anthony Blunt concluded that Poussin was working on ideas for all these subjects, and the painting "bears the marks of the other subjects, though it represents Neptune and Amphitrite".[2]

Triumph of Galatea, 1512, fresco
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486). Tempera on canvas. 172.5 cm × 278.9 cm (67.9 in × 109.6 in). Uffizi, Florence

The depiction is somewhat similar to the

Triumph of Galatea, from which the putto below the central female was directly copied, also seems to have influenced the composition.[4]

Poussin would certainly have known the Raphael from prints, and probably saw the original, which was in the

Medici family country house near Florence
, was then far less famous and less accessible.

The painting was painted for

St Petersburg until sold by the Russian government in 1930.[1][5]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d "Philadelphia Museum of Art". Philamuseum - Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  2. ^ France in the Golden Age, p. 308-309
  3. S2CID 195011999
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  4. ^ France in the Golden Age, p. 309
  5. ^ France in the Golden Age, p. 308

References

  • France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-century French Paintings in American Collections, Pierre Rosenberg, Sir
    John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, Marc Fumaroli, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1982, online
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