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Time

ClassificationsSCULPTURE
Daten.d.
Mediumlimestone
Dimensions77 × 30 × 19 in. (195.6 × 76.2 × 48.3 cm.) base: 56 × 35 × 35 in. (142.2 × 88.9 × 88.9 cm.) overall: 133 × 35 × 35 in. (337.8 × 88.9 × 88.9 cm.)
DescriptionThis statue portrays Chronus, the Greek god of time as a winged old man holding an hourglass and a scythe.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Status
On view
Object number22.9
Bacchus
Agostino Testa
late 17th Century
Object number: 20.45
Truth
Unknown
n.d.
Object number: 22.10
Pan
Unknown, Italian
n.d.
Object number: 22.13
Alpheus and Arethusa
Lorenzo Mattielli
1719-1724
Object number: 14.52
Mars
Giacomo Cassetti
1700-1757
Object number: 22.17
Allegorical Figure
Agostino Testa
late 17th - early 18th century
Object number: 20.35
Unidentified Figure
Unknown, Italian
n.d.
Object number: 22.11
Orpheus and Eurydice
Lorenzo Mattielli
1719-1724
Object number: 14.51
Photography © 2015 Fredrik Nilsen
Alfred Gilbert
ca. 1882
Object number: 2005.4
Venus Blindfolded by Cupid
Federico Gætano Villa
1876
Object number: 14.55
Mars
Agostino Testa
late 17th - early 18th century
Object number: 20.37