Water, represented by a naiad seated at the base of a tree and resting her arm on a supine urn from which water flows, behind her a triton and other inhabitants of the sea rise from the water surface, from "The Elements"
Giulio Carpioni
1640–60
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 4 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (10.8 × 15.9 cm) Sheet: 8 7/16 × 11 3/4 in. (21.5 × 29.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Museum Accession, by exchange, 1967
Accession Number
67.683.3
About the Artist
Giulio Carpioni · 1613–1678
Comment on works: Allegory; Mythology