Cleveland Museum of Art
Study of Apollo for Marsyas (recto); Face in Profile (verso)
Paul BaudryLinkedCulture matchlcp-872b3067b202
- Date
- late 1860s
- Medium
- pen and brown ink
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 166654
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
When Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry was commissioned to create the ceiling paintings for the Grand Foyer of the new Paris Opéra in 1864, for inspiration he visited the Sistine Chapel frescoes by Michelangelo—completed more than 300 years earlier. This drawing depicts the god Apollo from behind, intended for a scene in which Apollo points to the satyr Marsyas, with whom he held a musical competition. The pose and figure type recall Michelangelo’s monumental sculpture of David, which Baudry would have also seen on his Italian journey.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Provenance
- William K. Bixby, St. Louis (according to Shepherd Gallery). [Morin Vassar, Paris (according to Shepherd Gallery)]; [purchased in 1975 by Shepherd Gallery, New York]; purchased in 1976.
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