The Harpies Attacking Aeneas and His Companions

1670s/1680s

Johann Carl Loth

Associated Names
Johann Carl Loth

Artist, German, 1632 - 1698

The drawing features intricate pen lines, with highlights and shading suggesting depth and movement. It depicts multiple figures engaged in a dynamic scene, possibly a battle or encounter with mythical creatures. The figures include armored human-like beings and otherworldly creatures with wings and tails. The composition is tightly packed, with figures in various postures, reaching and clashing. Swirling clouds fill the background, adding drama to the scene.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 18.2 × 30.5 cm (7 3/16 × 12 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.38.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified private collector (fragment of collector's mark, not identified). (sale, Sotheby's New York, 28 January 2009, no. 76); purchased 2009 (via Jean-Lc Baroni, Ltd., London) by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 43.

Wikidata ID

Q64581874

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