The Contest between Apollo and Pan before King Midas

1670s

Joseph Werner

Artist, Swiss, 1637 - 1710

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sir A. Alison, England. (sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1983, no. 180). Mia Weiner, New York, 1984. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, no. 7, under no 6.

Bibliography

1984

  • Meisterwerke aus der Graphischen Sammlung: Zeichnungen des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Exh. cat. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung, 1984: 28, under no. 38.

1997

  • Ratjen, Wolfgang. "Tee bei Thiems: Reminiszenz aus einem Sammler-Leben." In L'Arte del Disegno, Festschrift für Christel Thiem zum 3. Januar 1997. Edited by Gunther Thiem. Munich and Berlin, 1997: 161-163, fig. 2 (caption switched with fig. 1).

1999

  • Kaulbach, Hans-Martin. Deutsche Zeichnungen vom Mittelalter bis zum Barock. Bestandskatalog, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung. Ostfildern-Ruit, 2007: 335, under no. 697, note 2.

Inscriptions

on the verso in graphite: geometric lines and rectangles drawn in perspective; inscribed in black ink: Zanchi and Di Pacera; in graphite: fol. 310; and modern notes on attribution, subject, and provenance

Wikidata ID

Q64591444

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