Apollo and the Muses

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 26.5 x 34.2 cm (10 7/16 x 13 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.150.84

Artists / Makers

Giuseppe Valeriani (artist) Italian, c. 1708 - 1761

Image Use

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Provenance

Member of the Russian imperial family; Maxmilien Eugène Joseph Napolèon de Beauharnais, 3rd duc de Leuchtenberg; Edmond Fatio, Geneva (sale Geneva, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., 1959); Seiferheld and Co., New York; William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, January 1961; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Beauharnais, Maxmilien Eugène Joseph Napolèon de
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Fatio, Edmond
O'Neal, William B., Professor
Seiferheld, Helene C.

Exhibition History

1912: Lomonosoff et l'epoque d'Elizabeth, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1912.

1961: Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, University of Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, Charlottesville, March 5-25, 1961.

1973: Master Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, Walter Cecil Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA and tour, 1973-1975.

Bibliography

1975: "Drawings for the Theater and Architecture: A Special View of a Notable Virginia Collection," Arts in Virginia, 15 (Spring 1975), 2.

1993: National Gallery of Art. Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. Washington, 1993, checklist p. 95.