Neptune Driving over Waves

Pelchinger

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nothing is known about the Pelchinger, presumably a German, who signed his name in Greek on the front of this cameo, which reproduces a Renaissance intaglio in the British Museum, London. In his catalogue of the Weil collection Ernst Kris said that the inscription could denote an owner rather than an artist, but an owner would have had less cause than an artist to Hellenize his name.

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