French Academic School 18th Century - Neptune River God
Artist: French Academic School, 18th Century.
Title: Neptune River God of Freshwater and The Sea.
Medium: Pen and brown ink on laid paper.
Sheet Size: Height 19.6 cm x Width 30.6 cm.
Framed Size: Height 37.5 cm x Width 49 cm x Depth 3 cm.
Condition: Good condition, framing line to outer drawing in black chalk, laid paper with watermark “CDC”, unsigned, minor blemishes, corner of sheet strengthened, traces of former mount verso. The frame has an acid-free mat and is glazed with anti-reflective UV-resistant Museum Glass.
Provenance: Private Collection The Netherlands.
About: The chalked border and finish of the drawing suggest a possible design for an engraving or a study after antiquity.
The River god has played the artist's muse since classical Greece’s Achelous and has been subject to variations in representations of mythological water deities through the centuries and cultures. A water deity is a god in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water, they are a common subject and were predominantly valued more among civilisations in which the sea or a river was of importance.
The prevalence of water deities used within the history of art was to enable idealism and the pursuit of perfection of the human form and has been encouraged since the classical period and further perfected throughout the European Renaissance.
Artist: French Academic School, 18th Century.
Title: Neptune River God of Freshwater and The Sea.
Medium: Pen and brown ink on laid paper.
Sheet Size: Height 19.6 cm x Width 30.6 cm.
Framed Size: Height 37.5 cm x Width 49 cm x Depth 3 cm.
Condition: Good condition, framing line to outer drawing in black chalk, laid paper with watermark “CDC”, unsigned, minor blemishes, corner of sheet strengthened, traces of former mount verso. The frame has an acid-free mat and is glazed with anti-reflective UV-resistant Museum Glass.
Provenance: Private Collection The Netherlands.
About: The chalked border and finish of the drawing suggest a possible design for an engraving or a study after antiquity.
The River god has played the artist's muse since classical Greece’s Achelous and has been subject to variations in representations of mythological water deities through the centuries and cultures. A water deity is a god in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water, they are a common subject and were predominantly valued more among civilisations in which the sea or a river was of importance.
The prevalence of water deities used within the history of art was to enable idealism and the pursuit of perfection of the human form and has been encouraged since the classical period and further perfected throughout the European Renaissance.
Artist: French Academic School, 18th Century.
Title: Neptune River God of Freshwater and The Sea.
Medium: Pen and brown ink on laid paper.
Sheet Size: Height 19.6 cm x Width 30.6 cm.
Framed Size: Height 37.5 cm x Width 49 cm x Depth 3 cm.
Condition: Good condition, framing line to outer drawing in black chalk, laid paper with watermark “CDC”, unsigned, minor blemishes, corner of sheet strengthened, traces of former mount verso. The frame has an acid-free mat and is glazed with anti-reflective UV-resistant Museum Glass.
Provenance: Private Collection The Netherlands.
About: The chalked border and finish of the drawing suggest a possible design for an engraving or a study after antiquity.
The River god has played the artist's muse since classical Greece’s Achelous and has been subject to variations in representations of mythological water deities through the centuries and cultures. A water deity is a god in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water, they are a common subject and were predominantly valued more among civilisations in which the sea or a river was of importance.
The prevalence of water deities used within the history of art was to enable idealism and the pursuit of perfection of the human form and has been encouraged since the classical period and further perfected throughout the European Renaissance.