Neptune's Horses
by CRANE, Walter, Oil on canvas, 86 x 215 cm
In this composition, Walter Crane was inspired by the sight of the surf during a trip to America in 1892. The impression of the landscape is personified for him in the mythological figures of the sea god Neptune and his untamed horses, like in B�cklin’s paintings. Crane created several colour schemes for his work in tempera and oil, the first of which he exhibited in the Water Colour Society in the winter of 1892-93.