Water Terrace with Statues and Fountains in a Park, Isaac de Moucheron, 1700 - 1744
oil on canvas, h 130cm × w 160cm × d 8.5cm More details
In this idealized, symmetrical garden, your eye is led past a pond with sphinx-shaped spouts and majestic triumphal arches to a fountain with the sea god Neptune seated in his chariot pulled by four horses. The painter De Moucheron created this work for Amsterdam’s Hortus Botanicus. The plants in the foreground near the balustrade are from South Africa and the Canary Islands and could be found as well in the botanical garden.
