Marine Gods Paying Homage to Love
about 1636–1638
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 96.2 × 136.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-132626
Classically proportioned sea gods and goddesses, partially clad in intensely colored drapery, form a dramatic procession against a light blue sky. This painting illustrates an episode in Francesco Colonna's *Hypnerotomachia Poliphili* (Strife of Love in a Dream of Polyphilus), an extravagant Renaissance tale of a dream-journey through antiquity. To the left, the lovers Polyphilus and Polia are ferried to Cythera, the island of love. The sea goddess Amphitrite, reclining in a shell at the lower right, and Neptune, seated high on a shell and holding his triton, watch the boat depart from amid a crowd of figures. Although it was first published in 1499, Colonna's book enjoyed immense popularity in seventeenth-century France. *Marine Gods Paying Homage to Love* is one of Eustache Le Sueur's eight canvases illustrating the *Hypnerotomachia Poliphili;* it was painted as a model for a Gobelins tapestry that was never executed.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1636–1638 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum
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