Reclining River Nymph, Arethusa

1700-1720 (Baroque)

56 cm 32.4 cm 22 cm

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In Greek and Roman myth, nymphs were female spirits of nature. Resting on an urn from which water flows and holding flowers, this muscular river nymph reclines in a pose made famous by the Roman marble river gods, personifications of Rome's own Tiber River and the Nile, which...

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