This work speaks of the migratory movement or the nomadic movement of the Cyclopes, we must speak that when Ulysses goes to the island of the Cyclopes what he is looking for is hospitality and what he finds is hostility, repeating this process throughout history and today.
in the painting in the upper part appears a darker figure as triumphant, representing the immigrant and the lower part would be representing neptune, so we can see perfectly that it is a victorious nomad emerging from the absorbing waters.