The Arrival of the Muses of Art at Architecture
INV-1988prints and drawingdrawings (visual works)
Date
1890
Medium
Pen and brown ink and colored crayons on cream wove paper (discolored to buff), pieced
Dimensions
20.6 × 24.8 cm (8 1/8 × 9 13/16 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
Jan Toorop was born in Indonesia, raised in the Netherlands, and married to an English wife. His art was as diverse as his cultural background. He experimented with many different styles, from Impressionism to Symbolism, and was adaptable even when working on a single image. This composition must have evolved as he drew. It comprises three individual pieces of paper.
Traversing a watery expanse, personifications of the arts (music, painting, poetry or literature, and sculpture) come to alleviate laborers from drudgery. The muse of architecture sits unshackled at the foot of the image.
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