Nymph
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Before traveling to Germany, Palagio learned to make bronze figures from Giambologna in Florence. The pose of Giambologna’s earlier crouching bathers (see 24.212.14 and 68.141.25) inspired Palagio. But his Nymph also possesses a novel lifelikeness. Her smooth flesh appears voluptuously palpable. The draperies upon which she sits glitter with reflections. By gazing up and offering her mirror, the Nymph invites her viewers to join in a delightful game of seeing and being seen.
Artwork Details
- Title: Nymph
- Artist: Attributed to Carlo di Cesare del Palagio (Italian, Florence 1540–ca. 1598)
- Modeler: After a model by Adriaen de Vries (Netherlandish, The Hague ca. 1545–1626 Prague)
- Date: 1590s
- Culture: German, Augsburg
- Medium: Bronze
- Dimensions: 13 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 6 in. (34.3 × 21.6 × 15.2 cm)
- Classification: Sculpture-Bronze
- Credit Line: On loan from the Donald Brownstein Collection, 2022
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts