Cleveland Museum of Art

Apollo with Erato and Cupid

Johann KellerthalerLinkedCulture matchlcp-1768c5cb64e8

Date: 1595
Medium: pen and black ink and brown wash heightened with white gouache
Culture: Germany
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 170515

From the Cleveland Museum of Art record

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.

View at Cleveland Museum of Art ↗

The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page

See at Cleveland Museum of Art

Provenance & credit

As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.

Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance: French private collection (according to Hilmar Klemke)

Part of a LinkedCulture topic

Apollo and the Muses
These objects all depict Apollo and/or the nine Muses from Greek mythology, who presided over the arts and sciences.
20 objects from 2 institutions

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions.

Erato, Muse of Lyrical Poetry

Cleveland Museum of Art

#163041

Erato (lyric and love poetry) (from the Tarocchi series D: Apollo and the Muses, #14)

Cleveland Museum of Art

#106356

Torso of Apollo

Cleveland Museum of Art

#105935

Statuette of Apollo

Getty Museum

#be7dabc3-650e-4046-bca1-b89a98643ab8

Apollo, God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry, and the Fine Arts with Urania, Muse of Astronomy

Cleveland Museum of Art

#163042

Apollo and the Muses

Minneapolis Institute of Art

#114410

Euterpe (music, lyric poetry) (from the Tarocchi series D: Apollo and the Muses, #18)

Cleveland Museum of Art

#106360

Euterpe, plate eighteen from Apollo and the Muses

Art Institute of Chicago

#11489

Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence; Erato, Muse of Lyrical Poetry; Apollo, God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry and the Fine Arts with Urania, Muse of Astronomy; Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry; Clio, Muse of History

Cleveland Museum of Art

#163039