Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . and Olympos from the Parthenon Pediments, the Dresden Statuette on Table in Foreground on either side of the centre, and thechariot of Athene and Poseidon and theanimals drawing them. (5.) In the centrewere Athene and Poseidon in violentmovement. (6.) The chariot of Athenewas almost certainly driven by Nike ( Vic-tory), and that of Poseidon by Amphi-trite. (7.) At the extreme angle to theright of Athene (our left) the recliningfigure is almost certainly a river-god,probably Kephissos, and the correspond-ing figures at the opp
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . and Olympos from the Parthenon Pediments, the Dresden Statuette on Table in Foreground on either side of the centre, and thechariot of Athene and Poseidon and theanimals drawing them. (5.) In the centrewere Athene and Poseidon in violentmovement. (6.) The chariot of Athenewas almost certainly driven by Nike ( Vic-tory), and that of Poseidon by Amphi-trite. (7.) At the extreme angle to theright of Athene (our left) the recliningfigure is almost certainly a river-god,probably Kephissos, and the correspond-ing figures at the opposite angle partakeof the same nature. Here the facts end. Fortunately, how-ever, but a few years before the destruc-tion by the Venetians, the Marquis deNointel, ambassador of Louis XIV. tothe Porte, stopped at Athens on his wayhomewards, in No-vember, 1674, andwas so much struckwith the beauties(11 the Parthenonthat he boughtfrom the Turkishcommander for sixyards of scarlet<-loth and a quarterof a hundred-weight of cotfee thepermission to havedrawings made of. Marble Statuette in Dresden (River-God) this temple. Luckily he had with himJacques Carrey, a pupil of Lebruns, aclever and rapid draughtsman. ? In afortnight he completed twenty-one largesheets of sketches of the pediments, thir-ty-two metopes, and a large portion ofthe frieze. After disappearing severaltimes, the drawings are now depositedin the Cabinet des Estampes of the Na-tional Library at Paris. Though nat-urally sketchy, these drawings haveproved invaluable to students of the Par-thenon marbles. The sketch of the western pedimentgives a very adequate notion of the com-position as a whole. Unfortunately, evenin the time of Carrey, the central por-tion of the glorious eastern pediment was missing, and theattempts at res-toration whichhave since beenmade rest entirelyupon the well-train-ed constructive im-agination ofarchaeologists andartists. Should I be ablesatisfactorily toprove the immedi-ate association of
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