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Nymph
Attributed to Carlo di Cesare del Palagio Italian
After a model by Adriaen de Vries Netherlandish
Not on view
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.
