Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus

c. 1640

Johann Christoph Storer

Associated Names
Johann Christoph Storer

Artist, German, c. 1591 - 1671

This drawing features a group of figures in a dynamic and mythological setting. The central focus shows figures engaged in a scene with musical instruments present. One figure wears a radiant headpiece. The lower part of the composition includes a pool of water with a reclining figure and a horse leaning down towards them. The artwork uses rich brown tones and white highlights on toned paper creating depth and movement. The swirling lines and soft sketches give an ethereal quality to the figures and setting.

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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 Number

    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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