Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2014.

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The Contest Between Apollo and Pan Judged by King Midas

Artist Sebastiano Ricci (Italian, 1659-1734)

CultureItalian

Dateca. 1685-1687

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 53 1/2 x 68 1/4 in. (135.9 x 173.4 cm)
Overall, Frame: 63 x 77 1/2 in. (160 x 196.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.696

Collections

European Art before 1945

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 207

DescriptionThis is an oil on canvas painting. King Midas, the standing figure in the background with a crown, judges a contest between Pan, playing his pipes on the left and Apollo, with a golden aura around his head, waiting for his turn to play the lyre.

Label TextSebastiano Ricci Italian, 1659–1734 The Contest Between Apollo and Pan Judged by King Midas, ca. 1685–87 Oil on canvas Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.696 ProvenanceSir Richard Colthurst, Bart., Blarney Castle, Cork; Sale, Sotheby's, London, Feb. 27, 1952, (cat. no. 143); Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum, 1971. Exhibition History"Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Seattle Art Museum; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis Art Institute; St. Louis City Art Museum; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City; Detroit Institute of Arts; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 2, 1956 - April 14, 1957. (Exhib. cat. no. 43). "Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown Inaugural Exhibition," Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1958. (Exhib. cat. no. 50). "Venetian Paintings of the Eighteenth Century," Finch College Museum of Art, New York City, 1961. (Exhib. cat. no. 38). "Sebastiano and Marco Ricci in America," Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, and University of Kentucky, 1965-1966. (Exhib. cat. no. 15). "Italian Renaissance and Baroque Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Dec. 2, 1967 - May 15, 1968. (Exhib. cat. no. 52). "Veronese to Franz Kline: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk," for the benefit of The Chrysler Museum Art Reference Library, Wildenstein & Co., New York, N. Y., April 13 - May 13, 1978. (Exhib. cat. no. 7). Published ReferencesBertina S. Manning. _Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.: An Exhibition Organized by the Portland Art Museum, Oregon_. Portland: Portland Art Association. 1956. No. 43. Bertina S. Manning. _Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown Inaugural Exhibition_. Provincetown, Massachusetts: Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown. 07/1958: no. 50. Robert L. Manning. _Italian Renaissance and Baroque Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr._. Norfolk: Norfolk Museum of Arts and Science. 1967. No. 52. Jeffery Daniels. _Sebastiano Ricci_. Hove, 1976, pp. 79-80, no. 261. Eric Young. "Two unpublished works by Sebastiano Ricci," _Burlington Magazine_. Vol. 119, no. 189. 04/1977: p. 276, no. 9. Eric M. Zafran and Mario Amaya. _Veronese to Franz Kline: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_. Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum. 1978. No. 7. Chrysler Museum. "Spotlight," _The Chrysler Museum Bulletin_. Vol. 11, no. 10. Norfolk: Chrysler Museum. 10/1981. Not paged. Jefferson C. Harrison. _The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, 1991, p. 58, #43. Alexandra Libby, Marina Pacini, and Stanton Thomas, eds., _Venice in the Age of Canaletto_, New York: Prestel Publishing, 2009, p. 55