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
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Giulio Carpioni · 1613–1678
Comment on works: Allegory; Mythology