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Apollo and the Muses

about 1580

2014.82

On display in C204

oil paintcanvas

Artwork Details

Artist
Creation Date
about 1580
Materials
oil on canvas
Object Types
paintings, oil paintings
Dimensions

21-5/8 x 36-11/16 in. (canvas) approximately 30-1/2 x 44-1/2 x 3 in. (framed)

Accession Number
2014.82
Credit Line

The Clowes Collection

Copyright
Public Domain
Collection

European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800

Color Palette

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm [1614-1662], Brussels, then Vienna, by at least 1659; {1} Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Vienna, by 1895, and Staatsmuseum, Vienna, by 1923. {2} Possibly Princess of Thurn and Taxis. {3} (E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York); Dr. George Henry Alexander Clowes [1877-1958], Indianapolis, by 1940; {4} Clowes Fund Collection, Indianapolis, since 1958; on long-term loan to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Courtesy of the Clowes Fund, since 1971 (C10049); given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2014. {1}The painting is included as an unnumbered engraving by Nicolaus van Hoy in David Teniers the Younger’s Theatrum Pictorium, Antwerp, 1660, which documents Hapsburg Archduke Leopold Wilhelm’s most admired Italian paintings. It is also listed in a 1659 inventory as no. 357, see Adolf Berger, “Inventar der Kunstsammlung des Erzherzogs Leopold Wilhelm von Osterreich, nach der Originalhandschrift im Fürstlich Schwarzenberg’schen Centralarchive,” in Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, volume 1, Teil II (1883), p. cvi. {2}The painting is included in the Führer durch die Gemälde-Galerie, Alte Meister. Volume 1 (Italienische, Spanische und Französische Schulen), Kunsthistorische Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, Vienna 1895, catalogue no. 241 as Jacopo Tintoretto. It is subsequently listed in Erich von der Bercken and August L. Mayer, Tintoretto, Munich 1923, volume 1, p. 247. {3}This owner is given in A. Ian Fraser, A Catalogue of the Clowes Collection, Indianapolis 1973, p. 34 (“Princess Thurn and Taxis, after 1907”) and is repeated in Rodolfo Pallucchini and Paola Rossi, Tintoretto: Le opera sacre e profane, Milan 1982, volume 1: catalogue no. A46. By contrast Lionello Venturi, in an expertise dated 1 September 1937, writes that the painting remained in the possession of the Austrian state collection until 1933 when it was sold; see IMA Clowes Archive (C10073). Neither of these paths has yet been confirmed. {4}The painting was first exhibited in the United States in Four Centuries of Venetian Painting, Toledo Museum of Art, March 1940, catalogue no. 56 (illustration), as owned by Clowes.


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