Description
This colorful drawing features the amorous pair of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. According to the Roman version of the Greek myth, the two gods’ courtship gave rise to the birth of the nine muses. De Wit sets the title figures in a pastoral scene replete with an infant shepherd, distant mountains, and loyal hounds.
Provenance
Sold, Christie’s, London, July 9, 2002, lot 66, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Accession Number
185913
Medium
Pen and brown and black ink and brush and brown and gray wash, with watercolor, heightened with white gouache, over traces of graphite on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
44.9 × 31 cm (17 11/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Credit Line
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
