Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus

c. 1640

Johann Christoph Storer

Artist, German, c. 1591 - 1671

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 36 x 24.3 cm (14 3/16 x 9 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.45.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Holtkutt (not in Lugt). (sale, Sotheby's New York, 21 January 2003, no. 47); (via Jean-Luc Baroni, London); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1996

  • Italian Old Master Drawings, 1500-1850. Flavia Ormond Fine Arts, London, exhibited at Adelson Galleries, New York, 1996, no. 10.

Bibliography

2024

  • Bober, Jonathan. "Seventeenth-century Milanese drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and some associated collections."Arte Lombarda 200-201, no. 1-2 (2024): 92, fig. 29.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper center verso in brwon ink: questo Disegno molto è stato piaciuto e stimato dal / Sig. Battoni ma non ha saputo trovare il vero Autore

Wikidata ID

Q64581895

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