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Galatea escaping Polyphemus; he is seated on a rock holding a staff and pipes and looking towards Galatea at right riding a shell pulled by two dolphins, Cupid flying above
ca. 1515–27
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- Sheet (Trimmed): 4 3/8 × 6 13/16 in. (11.1 × 17.3 cm)
- Collection no.
- 26.50.1(133)
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Marco Dente. Galatea escaping Polyphemus; he is seated on a rock holding a staff and pipes and looking towards Galatea at right riding a shell pulled by two dolphins, Cupid flying above. Marco Dente; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Galatea escaping Polyphemus; he is seated on a rock holding a staff and pipes and looking towards Galatea at right riding a shell pulled by two dolphins, Cupid flying above — Marco Dente. ca. 1515–27.
Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 4 3/8 × 6 13/16 in. (11.1 × 17.3 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.