print
- Museum number
- A,8.220
- Title
- Series: Theatrum Pictorium
- Description
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Plate 220: Galatea and Polyphemus, after Domenico Fetti; the nereid is seen washing her hair in her dolphin-drawn chariot, surrounded by tritons and tritonesses, while to the left Polyphemus looks on.
Etching
- Production date
- 1654-1660
- Dimensions
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Height: 201 millimetres
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Width: 303 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is plate 220 from 246 plates of Teniers' Theatre of Paintings, for comment on the series see A,8.1.
The painting is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. GG_1722); see Safarik, 1990, cat. No.113.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- A,8.220
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 1981,U.2202
