Neptune with a Seahorse

ca. 1590 (Renaissance)

13.8 cm 43 cm 12 cm

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Neptune was the Roman god of the sea. Here, he is accompanied by a hippocamp, or sea horse, a mythological creature that was half horse and half fish, that he has grabbed by the tail. Originally, the god would have held a trident in his left hand. Neptune was often represente...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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