The Contest between Apollo and Pan before King Midas
1670s
Joseph Werner
Artist, Swiss, 1637 - 1710
Artwork overview
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Medium
black and gray wash and white gouache on gray prepared paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 26.3 x 31.5 cm (10 3/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2007.111.182
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