Neptune

Adam Lenckhart

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Neptune is shown calming the stormy sea, represented by the wild-eyed dolphin. The sea god's trident has been lost. Neptune's swirling hair and beard parallel the spiral of his stance; these features may owe a debt to Italian prototypes but may also have been determined by the form of the tusk. The anatomical precision of the musculature, body hair, and folds of flesh are marks of the northern carving tradition in which Lenckhart was first trained.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art