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After Bernini. A carved limestone figure of a Triton
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 EUR
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Description
- 135cm. high
the kneeling merman blowing a conch shell
Literature
Related Literature
See for comparable Triton fountains: J. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, Suffolk 1991, pp. 106, 125 and p. 185.
See for comparable Triton fountains: J. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, Suffolk 1991, pp. 106, 125 and p. 185.
Catalogue Note
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini's (1598 - 1680) Triton Fountain (Fontana del Tritone) is located in the Piazza Barberini, Rome and was executed in 1642 - 1643 under the commission of Pope Urban VIII.