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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

Status

On view

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.

Object number11.2