Jupiter and Mnemosyne, 1720

Title

Jupiter and Mnemosyne

Draughtsman

• Jacob de Wit

Contractor, employer

• Cornelis van Schuylenburch

Production Place

• Amsterdam
• The Hague

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Pen and dark brown ink and brush and brown, grey and blue ink, over red chalk

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• red chalk
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• brush drawing
• red chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• ceiling painting design

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert unten (mit der Feder in Schwarz): JdeWit inv & F
Bezeichnet unten (mit Rötel): Jupiter bij Mnomsinem in een / [... beschnitten]

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet unten (mit der Feder in Schwarz): voor t [...] d heer Cornelis van Schuylenburgch in den hage
Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), geschwärzt, darunter weiterer Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts

Watermark

• [Fragment, nicht identifizierbar]

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• mythological representation

Persons Shown

• Jupiter
• Mnemosyne

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Ovid

Illustrated Passage

• Ovid: Metamorphosen, 6., 114

Primary

• 91B126 Mnemosyne
• 92B1224 Jupiter, in the guise of a shepherd, and Mnemosyne, Titaness and mother of the Muses
• 25F33(EAGLE) predatory birds: eagle
• 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure