The Marble Relief Landscape with King Numa and the Nymph Egeria
66 the rijks museum bulletin Fit for a Royal Commission? The Marble Relief Landscape with King Numa and the Nymph Egeria • aleksandra lipin´ska • he Rijksmuseum’s collection Fig. 1 be the only sculptor to fit this very broad T includes a sixteenthcentury Landscape with profile. marble relief titled Landscape with King Numa and What’s more, a meticulous com King Numa and the Nymph Egeria, Nymph Egeria, 1600. parison of the Amsterdam work with White marble, which had previously been attributed marble reliefs by Colin and his collabo 38 x 43.5 cm. to Alexander Colin (Colyn, 1526/29 Amsterdam, r ators, such as those on the tomb of 1 1612) (fig. 1). Although Erica Tietze Rijksmuseum, Emperor Maximilian i in the Hofkirche Conrat, who dated the work to around inv. no. bk-18016. in Innsbruck (fig. 2), reveals a clear 1560, was the first to mention Colin discrepancy between his style and in connection with it, she nevertheless sculptural technique and that of the suggested that it was made by another anonymous maker of the relief of sculptor working in a manner similar Numa Pompilius.5 To begin with, the to that of the Mechelen master’s youth principal characteristic of Colin’s ful work.2 Jaap Leeuwenberg, on the reliefs is the dense, multiplane, figural other hand, seemed to be convinced of Colin’s authorship, but dated the work much later, to around 1600.3 Although no specific arguments have been put forward to support this thesis, one might attempt to reconstruct what they would be.
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