Andromeda
Flemish School or German School
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1600
Materials
Bronze on marble base
Measurements
328 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871601
Summary
Bronze sculpture on marble base, Andromeda, Flemish or German School, circa 1600. Bronze figure mounted on a black marble base. According to the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses (4:665-739), Andromeda, an Ethopian princess, daughter of Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia, was left as a sacrifice to appease Poseidon/Neptune (god of the sea) because her mother had boasted she was more beautiful then the Nereids. She was rescued from a sea monster by Perseus, whom she then married.
Provenance
Accepted with Saltram house and some of the more important contents by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
Flemish School or German School, sculptor previously catalogued as attributed to Italian School, sculptor