Apollo with Erato and Cupid (1595): Art, History and Details
Apollo with Erato and Cupid at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1595, pen and black ink and brown wash heightened with white gouache. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Apollo with Erato and Cupid (1595) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Johann Kellerthaler (German, c. 1560/2–1611).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
In this visual allegory of poetry, Apollo holds his attribute, the kithara, a stringed instrument used in the recitation of epic poems. Erato, the Muse of lyric poetry, appears with a lute and tambourine at her feet. Lyric poetry typically expresses an idea or emotion, such as love, through short, musical, and rhythmic verse. Kellerthaler lived in Dresden, where he regularly worked for members of the Saxon court as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and goldsmith.
Object facts
- Title: Apollo with Erato and Cupid
- Date: 1595
- Creator attribution: Johann Kellerthaler (German, c. 1560/2–1611)
- Culture: Germany
- Type: Drawing
- Technique: pen and black ink and brown wash heightened with white gouache
- Dimensions: Sheet: 19.1 x 15 cm (7 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.)
- Collection: DR - German
- Department: Drawings
- Accession number: 2012.98
Collection credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Further reading listed by the museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 02, March/April 2013
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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