About the Artwork
Apollo Enthroned with Minerva and the Muses
1730
Jacob de Wit
1695-1754
Dutch
Unknown
Pen and gray ink, brush and brown and black ink, and gray brown, and red wash, heightened with white and pink, over a preliminary drawing in graphite on discolored laid paper
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (32.7 × 27.6 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
58.208
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in pen and brown ink, lower left: J de Witt invt [J de W in monogram]
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, lower center: Blaffon | voor de Heer direk van Lennip 1730-op eynde Edzzaal | geschildert Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower center: + 1500 [See negative #11190 for reproduction of inscription that is in Dutch on verso]
Watermark: Strasbourg Lily (ef. Churchhill 411)
Provenance
Schaeffer Galleries, Inc. (New York, New York, USA)
1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Staring, Adolph. "Een vergissing van Jacob de Wit." Oud-Holland 74, 1 (1959): pp. 56-58 (fig. 4). [wrongly listed as in an Amsterdam collection]
De Bruijn Kops, C. J. "De Gedaanteverandering van het geschilderde plafond door Jacob de Wit in de voorzaal van het K. O. G. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam." Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap Jaarverslagen (1982): pp. 53- 59 (fig. 3).
Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 83-85, no. 33 (ill.).
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Jacob de Wit, Apollo Enthroned with Minerva and the Muses, 1730, pen and gray ink, brush and brown and black ink, and gray brown, and red wash, heightened with white and pink, over a preliminary drawing in graphite on discolored laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 58.208.
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