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The Tiber

Maker Unknown, French, 18th Century , after the antique

Modelmodel attributed to Martin Carlier (French, died after 1700)

Possiblypossibly by Jasquet Buviette (French)

ClassificationsSCULPTURE

Date1690-1730

Mediumleaded bronze

Dimensions16 3/4 x 29 3/8 x 13 1/4 in., 100 lb. (42.5 x 74.6 x 33.7 cm., 45.4 kg.)

DescriptionThis small bronze sculpture portraying a personification of the Tiber, the longest river in Central Italy, is an 18th-century reduced version of an ancient statue now at the Louvre.

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Label TextThis sculpture represents the Tiber River as a muscular man reclining beside a she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, the mythical founders of the city of Rome. The figure holds a cornucopia in his right hand and, in his left, the oar with which he controls the tides.

Status

On view

Object number11.2