Euterpe (Personification of Music)

1569/1573

Friedrich Sustris

Artist, Netherlandish, 1540 - 1599

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on gray-green laid paper squared in black chalk

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 27.3 × 20.3 cm (10 3/4 × 8 in.)
    mount: 30.9 × 23.9 cm (12 3/16 × 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2021.15.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Giancarlo Baroni [1926 - 2007]. (sale, Pandolfini, Florence, 23 November 2013, no. 177, as "attributed to Sustris"). (Jean-Luc Baroni, London, until 2015); Herbert Kasper [1926 - 2020], New York; his estate; (W, M. Brady & Co. Inc., New York); purchased 2021 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2023

  • Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Inscriptions

by later hand in pen and brown ink: Fran:co Primaticcio / Fontainebleau

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