Apollon accorde a la Sybile

Monnet, Charles (1732-after 1808)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1768
Technique / Medium:
pen and black ink and brush and brown ink with brown wash

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1942.9.1090]

Description

Apollo holding lyre. (Apollo granting Sybil the ability to live as many years as she holds grains of sand in her hand). Preliminary drawing for Ovid, Metamorphoses.

Iconclass

97L3
the Cumaean Sibyl is granted long life: Apollo grants the Cumaean Sibyl as many years as she has grains of sand in her hand, in return for her love (Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV 136)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

4040