Dado of Mermen, Putti, Seahorses, and Sea Monsters
after Raphael (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas (grisaille)
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257226
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (grisaille), Dado of Mermen, Putti, Seahorses, and Sea Monsters, after Raphael, 19th century. 1: a merman, riding the waves, centre, turned to right, back to spectator, a wreath of leaves around his waist; holding a conch shell in his right hand, and a fish in his left, with which he is about to strike a ram-headed sea-monster. To the left, a satyr steps onto the tail of the fish-serpent; 2: a merman, riding the waves, centre, holding a weapon, both arms raised above the head, ready to strike a sea-monster, left; a naked youth behind; 3: a merman, riding the waves, centre, with a fish-serpent tail on which a naked youth rides, and a sea serpent with the head of a dragon, the body of a serpent, the front legs of a horse and the wings of a swan; 4: a merman, riding the waves, back to spectator, looking upwards, with curly hair and full beard, he holds a large conch shell in his right hand; 5: a hippocamp, turned to right, riding the waves, with the tail of a serpent, carrying a naked putto on its back, in whose right hand he holds a swirling drape which forms an arc above himself and the horse; 6: a naked putto standing on the waves, holds aloft, in his left hand, a dead sea-serpent; 7: a winged sea-creature with the head of a dragon, rears up on the left, in front of a merman holding a club, ready to strike the sea-creature, a nereid sits on the merman's neck; 8: centre, riding the waves is a dragon-headed sea creature, to the left, a merman holding a club in his right hand, raised above his head, and to the right another merman holding one of the horns of the sea-creature in his right hand.
Provenance
acquired by William John Bankes before 1853; bequeathed by Ralph Bankes, 1981
Credit line
Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Raphael (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520), artist Italian (Venetian) School , artist William John Bankes (1786 - 1855), copyist