Artist: Unknown Artist/Maker (German, 18Th Century)
Tatum: 1799
Tuseum: Maritime Museum Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Techniek: Gouache
This gouache tells the legend of Hippo. Several sailing ships are depicted in a wide bay. The sailing ship on the right has three masts. Several colorfully depicted people are standing on deck. In front of the ship a woman in a pinkish-red gown, Hippo, is thrown into the water as a sacrifice. In the middle she is rescued by a dolphin. On the left Hippo is back on shore, where she is welcomed by women and a child. This gouache is a copy, probably from the eighteenth century, of an oil painting by Bernardino Fungai.
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