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ECL-Bm.11:40/1-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bm.11:40/1-2013

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Identification

Title

Garland Sarcophagus: Oedipus and Sphinx, Polyphemus and Galatea

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Was Fa 2 no.3
Bm 11 40.1 and 41.2 are catalogued together being drawings of the same sarcophagus

Other number

Fa 3 Palazzo no. 3

Description

Content (description)

Three nude winged putti hold two garlands of fruit with flying fillets. Over the garland on left two men, one nude, one draped, stand on right and confront a sphinx, which sits on a high rock on left. It waves a paw at them while it looks over its shoulder to left. Over the garland on right, Galatea, almost nude, rides through the waves to right on the back of a dolphin. On right Polyphemus, wearing a skin, sits on a rock mound and gestures to her. There is a sheep on the right by his seat, another grazes higher on left. At top left a river god reclines on rocks ( or clouds) with his arm on an over-turned urn from which flows water, holding a pedum against his shoulde. There is a tree on left by his knee.

Content (object)

drawing

Dimensions

height (actual size): 377mm
width (actual size): 485mm

Inscription

Calderi Palazzo Mattei No. 3
written in ink on the back of the drawing

Inscription description

D No.3 written in pencil on the front of the drawing, lower right

Materials & techniques note

red chalk on paper

Production

Person

Calderi, Carlo (Artist)

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• RR (III ; 305.1)
• ASR (II ; no. 182)
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