The Nile
Etienne Delaune French
After Francesco Primaticcio Italian
Not on view
Engraving with a representation of the river Nile, after a composition by Francesco Primatticio, with the male figure of the Nile reclining on bushes on the right side, the bare torso and head of a sphinx between his legs and the upper body of a satyr to his right, surrounded by putti. The picture that inspired this engraving was on the vault of the gallery where ninety mythological compositions were framed by secondary subjects like the figure of the Nile at the 'Galerie d'Ulysse' in Fontainebleau, before it was destroyed in the 18th century.
