Jupiter and Mnemosyne

Prints and Drawings

1733

Jacob de Wit
Flemish, 1695-1754

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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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jacob de Wit
Title: Jupiter and Mnemosyne
Place: Flanders (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 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
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "JDewit / 1733"
Dimensions: 44.9 × 31 cm (17 11/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.1047
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A. Starling, Jacob de Wit, 1695–1754 (Amsterdam, 1958), cat. 93.

Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” Mar. 15-une 15, 2014, no cat.

Sold, Christie’s, London, July 9, 2002, lot 66, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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