The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 3, 2022

Ewer with Triumph of Galatea

c. 1700

Massimiliano Soldani

(Italian, 1656-1740)

Italy, Florence, late 17th-early 18th Century

Bronze

Overall: 81.5 x 35.5 x 26.5 cm (32 1/16 x 14 x 10 7/16 in.); Base: 8.9 x 25.9 x 26.5 cm (3 1/2 x 10 3/16 x 10 7/16 in.)

Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1975.112

Location

217 Italian Baroque

Description

Upon discovering the sea nymph Galatea's infidelity, her betrothed, the Cyclops Polyphemus, pulverizes her lover Acis with a rock. In grief, Galatea turns his blood into a river and Acis becomes god of that river, which bears his name. Here Galatea escorts a swarm of sea creatures in celebration of Acis's apotheosis.

Provenance
Cyril Humphris, born 1932 (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.
Exhibition history

CMA 1976: "Year in Review 1975," Bulletin, LXIII (February 1976), p. 65, no. 16, illus.

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1975.112