Jacob de Wit
Flemish, 1695-1754
Jupiter and Mnemosyne
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Jacob de Wit
Flemish, 1695-17541733
Jupiter and Mnemosyne
Jacob de Wit Flemish, 1695-1754 →prints and drawingink
Date
1733
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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.
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