Sculpture

The Tiber

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Type: Sculpture(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1690-1730
Accession number: 11.2
Maker: Unknown, French, 18th Century(Opens in new tab) (French)
Possibly: possibly by Jasquet Buviette(Opens in new tab) (French)
Model: model attributed to Martin Carlier(Opens in new tab) (French, died 1700)
Dimensions: 16 3/4 x 29 3/8 x 13 1/4 in., 100 lb. (42.5 x 74.6 x 33.7 cm., 45.4 kg.)
Medium: leaded bronze
Description: This small bronze sculpture portraying a personification of the Tiber, the longest river in Central Italy, is an 18th-century reduced version of an ancient statue now at the Louvre.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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This sculpture represents the Tiber River as a muscular man reclining beside a she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, the mythical founders of the city of Rome. The figure holds a cornucopia in his right hand and, in his left, the oar with which he controls the tides.

The Tiber

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