Neptune and Triton
An Exceptional 18th Century interpretation of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Marble group from 1622-23. The original nearly 2m tall statue is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. This group was reproduced extensively throughout the 18th Century. The original sold to Thomas Jenkins a British Art Dealer in 1786.
This beautiful group is 40cm’s tall carved from Lime wood, Gesso’d and painted to resemble Bronze. It has in time taken on a rich patination and in certain light shows Greens and Browns………The rocky base, Trident and Shell horn are Gilded (painted gold)
The whole piece is in remarkably original condition and is a very accurate representation of the the original and proportionally perfect. A very rare and beautiful piece dating from as early as the 1730’s
The marble sculpture group was originally commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Damascenti-Peretti Montalto in 1620, and executed March 1622 to February 1623, serving as a fountain to decorate the pond in the garden of his Villa Peretti Montalto on the Viminal Hill in Rome.[3][4] The group was placed in the pre-existing oval pool (called the Peschiera or Peschierone), designed by Domenico Fontana in 1579–81.
It was purchased by the Englishman Thomas Jenkins in 1786, from whom it was purchased later that year by the painter Joshua Reynolds.The work had been called "Neptune and Glaucus" following Filippo Baldinucci's biography of the artist,but appears as "Nettvno, e Tritone" in Domenico de' Rossi's engraving (1704), and also later corrected to "Neptune and Triton" following Reynolds' notes
After Reynolds's death in 1792 it was sold to Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough, who kept it in the garden of his home in Chelsea, London, Walpole House.His descendants moved it in 1906 to their country house, Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire.It was bought from the family by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1950, although it had appeared at an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London in 1938.
Neptune and Triton
An Exceptional 18th Century interpretation of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Marble group from 1622-23. The original nearly 2m tall statue is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. This group was reproduced extensively throughout the 18th Century. The original sold to Thomas Jenkins a British Art Dealer in 1786.
This beautiful group is 40cm’s tall carved from Lime wood, Gesso’d and painted to resemble Bronze. It has in time taken on a rich patination and in certain light shows Greens and Browns………The rocky base, Trident and Shell horn are Gilded (painted gold)
The whole piece is in remarkably original condition and is a very accurate representation of the the original and proportionally perfect. A very rare and beautiful piece dating from as early as the 1730’s
The marble sculpture group was originally commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Damascenti-Peretti Montalto in 1620, and executed March 1622 to February 1623, serving as a fountain to decorate the pond in the garden of his Villa Peretti Montalto on the Viminal Hill in Rome.[3][4] The group was placed in the pre-existing oval pool (called the Peschiera or Peschierone), designed by Domenico Fontana in 1579–81.
It was purchased by the Englishman Thomas Jenkins in 1786, from whom it was purchased later that year by the painter Joshua Reynolds.The work had been called "Neptune and Glaucus" following Filippo Baldinucci's biography of the artist,but appears as "Nettvno, e Tritone" in Domenico de' Rossi's engraving (1704), and also later corrected to "Neptune and Triton" following Reynolds' notes
After Reynolds's death in 1792 it was sold to Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough, who kept it in the garden of his home in Chelsea, London, Walpole House.His descendants moved it in 1906 to their country house, Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire.It was bought from the family by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1950, although it had appeared at an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London in 1938.
