The Contest between Apollo and Pan before King Midas, c. 1670

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash, corrected with white gouache, over traces of graphite, on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 21 x 20 cm (8 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Baljöhr 2003, Z 45

Accession Number

2007.111.164

Artists / Makers

Johann Spillenberger (artist) German, 1628 - 1679

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso at bottom right in brown ink: Spilberger: on 18th-century mount at top right in red ink: No 1876, and in graphite: 30; at bottom left in brown ink: No 90 (90 crossed out) 53; at bottom right in graphite: Spilberger/XVIIe s.; on verso of mount at top in graphite: E.A. and P 16, and at top right: 25 (encircled)

Provenance

Salomon Gautier, Paris and Amsterdam (first half of 18th century) (Lugt 2978). (sale, Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 17 June 1985, no. 46). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Gautier, Salomon
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, no. 6, under no. 7.

Bibliography

2003: Baljöhr, Ruth. Johann von Spillenberger 1628 - 1679, Ein Maler des Barock. Weissenhorn, 2003: 275, no. Z 45 (reprod.).