Apollo and the muses

Blondel, Merry Joseph (1781-1853)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

ca. 1814

Height:

17.9 cm  (7 1/16 in.)

Width:

33.1 cm  (13 1/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

graphite and brown wash on cream wove paper

Description

This album leaf drawing depicts Apollo, playing a kithara, surrounded by figures of the nine muses, some holding musical instruments (including a lyre or smaller kithara, long trumpet, aulos).

Iconclass

92B3731
Apollo and the Muses, Apollo Musagetes
92B37
Apollo playing the lyre, Apollo Cithardroedus
48C753
more than one musician with instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kithara [4940]
End-blown trumpet [6556] (long, herald style)
Aulos [4173]
Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Inscriptions and Marks from museum website
Signed: in graphite at lower right: Blondel

RIdIM record id

5767