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Artist/Maker(s): Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, 1604 or 1605 ? - 1682)
Culture: French
Place(s): France (Place created)
Date: 1674
Medium: Pen and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk
Dimensions: 21.3 x 58.1 cm (8 3/8 x 22 7/8 in.)
Signed: Signed and dated “CLAVDIO. I.V.F./ROMA 1675” and “CLAVD.F.7” and “Claudio Gellee”.
Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: Extensively inscribed with identifications, within cartouches, of the different figures, as follows: “Terpsicore la/cetara in mano/ghirlanda/di pene di vary colore/in atto di/Ballare” [Muse of dancing and song] “Talia/ghirlanda di/cari foiri [sic] un/maschera in/mano et allegre” [Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry] “Pollinnia/volume/in mano/polinnia/acconciatura/in testa di/perle et gioie” [Muse of heroic hymns] “Urania/ una chirlanda/di lucenti stelle/un globo in mano” [Muse of astronomy] “Calliope un/cerchio d'oro cinta/la fronte in mano/un libri [sic] in mano” [Muse of epic poetry] “Melpomene ricca et/vaga acconciatura di/Capo con corone in/mano et scettri [Muse of tragedy] “Apollo”, “Euteroe ghirlanda/di varie flory in/mano diversi strumenta/da fiato” [Muse of music and lyric poetry] “ERato cinte le tempie/con corona di mirto/con la mano terra/una lira et il/plectro” [Muse of lyric and love poetry].
Alternate Title(s): Apollo and the Muses (Display Title)
SKU: 201017
