"Apollo gardant les troupeaux d'Admet, dans les campagnes de Messene"

Eisen, Charles (1720-1778)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1766
Technique / Medium:
graphite on paper

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1942.9.899]

Description

Apollo guarding Admetus's flock in the fields of Messene. Apollo playing transverse flute. Preliminary drawing for Ovid, Metamorphoses.

Iconclass

92B351
Apollo tends Admetus' flock as penalty for having slain the Cyclopes

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Transverse flute [4093]

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

4027