Neptune and Triton. Neptune and Triton is an early sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
It is housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum of London and was executed c. 1622-1623. Carved from marble, it stands 182.2 cm in height.
The marble sculpture group was originally commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Damascenti-Peretti Montalto in 1620, and executed March 1622 to February 1623, serving as a fountain to decorate the pond in the garden of his Villa Peretti Montalto on the Viminal Hill in Rome. The group was placed in the pre-existing oval pool, designed by Domenico Fontana in 1579-81.
It was purchased by the Englishman Thomas Jenkins in 1786, from whom it was purchased later that year by the painter Joshua Reynolds. The work had been called Neptune and Glaucus following Filippo Baldinucci's biography of the artist, but appears as Nettvno, e Tritone in Domenico de' Rossi's engraving, and also later corrected to Neptune and Triton following Reynolds' notes.
After Reynolds's death in 1792 it was sold to Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough, who kept it in the garden of his home in Chelsea, London, Walpole House. His descendants moved it in 1906 to their country house, Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire. It was bought from the family by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1950, although it had appeared at an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London in 1938. The scene is thought to
It is housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum of London and was executed c. 1622-1623. Carved from marble, it stands 182.2 cm in height.
The marble sculpture group was originally commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Damascenti-Peretti Montalto in 1620, and executed March 1622 to February 1623, serving as a fountain to decorate the pond in the garden of his Villa Peretti Montalto on the Viminal Hill in Rome. The group was placed in the pre-existing oval pool, designed by Domenico Fontana in 1579-81.
It was purchased by the Englishman Thomas Jenkins in 1786, from whom it was purchased later that year by the painter Joshua Reynolds. The work had been called Neptune and Glaucus following Filippo Baldinucci's biography of the artist, but appears as Nettvno, e Tritone in Domenico de' Rossi's engraving, and also later corrected to Neptune and Triton following Reynolds' notes.
After Reynolds's death in 1792 it was sold to Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough, who kept it in the garden of his home in Chelsea, London, Walpole House. His descendants moved it in 1906 to their country house, Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire. It was bought from the family by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1950, although it had appeared at an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London in 1938. The scene is thought to
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