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Neptune
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Neptune

last quarter 16th century

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

Height: 18 7/8 in. (47.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Ogden Mills, 1924

Classification

Sculpture-Bronze

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

Dutch

Rights

Public Domain

About Johan Gregor van der Schardt

1530–1590Habsburg Netherlands

Schardt travelled and studied for some years in Italy, notably in Rome, in the Veneto, and in Bologna. He was in the service of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II in Vienna, and also worked at the Danish court. He may have died in Nuremberg, possibly in the early 1590s.

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