Apollo and the Muses
Bartholomaeus Spranger
c. 1700
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
19.6 × 25.4 cm (7 3/4 × 10 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84255
About the Artist
Bartholomaeus Spranger
Bartholomaeus Spranger was born on 21 March 1546 in Antwerp, Habsburg Netherlands, as the third son of trader Ioachim Spranger and Anna Roelandtsinne. He began his artistic training in Antwerp, apprenticing for 18 months under landscape painter Jan Mandijn, briefly with Frans Mostaert after Mandijn's death, and then spending two years studying followed by two more in the workshop of Cornelis van D...