Die Quelle der Nymphe Egeria bei Rom,

um 1860

Material / Technology / Carrier

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

92,5 x 142,3 cm

Displayed

Not on display

Department

19. Jahrhundert

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

11589

Acquisition

1861 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München

Citation

Georg Köbel, Die Quelle der Nymphe Egeria bei Rom, um 1860, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/jpxeg6BGJ7 (Last updated on 19.06.2023)

The story of the water-nymph Egeria belongs among the myths surrounding the origins and early history of Rome. According to Ovid in the Metamorphoses, Egeria was the wife and adviser of King Numa Pompilius. She met the king in a grotto in which she lived outside the gates of the city, in a shady valley not far from the Via Appia. It was believed to be the grotto depicted here, which travellers visited because of its literary associations and which artists had painted frequently since the seventeenth century.