Print Description
Neptune and Amphitrite standing in shallow water; Naiads in the water in the foreground; lion and lioness and a rhinoceros (in the manner of D?rer) to left; hippopotamus and crocodile to right.
Made by Edouard Schuler after Peter Paul Rubens.
Medium: Steel engraving on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 20 x 26.5 cm (7.87 x 10.43 inch). Image size: 14.6 x 18 cm. (5.75 x 7.09 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
ROMAN-MYTHOLOGY-NEPTUNE-AMPHITRITE-NAIADS | PCO-C22-5
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Source: unknown, to be determined.
Biography engraver: Edouard Schuler (1806-1882) was a French artist known for his work in steel engraving, lithography, and copper engraving. Schuler was born on August 19, 1806, in Strasbourg, France. His father was Charles-Louis Schuler. Schuler began his artistic journey around 1821 and continued until his passing in 1882. He was active in both Strasbourg and Karlsruhe.
Biography artist: Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens’s highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.
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