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Artist or Maker: Moritz von Schwind (Vienna 1804-1871 Munich)

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Description: Four nymphs tying Pan to a tree
signed and dated 'M Schwind i85i'
black chalk, pen and brown and grey ink, watercolor, watermark J. Honig & Zoonen
8 1/2 x 14 in. (215 x 359 mm.)

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Notes: Dr Hinrich Sieveking has kindly pointed out that this drawing is a development of von Schwind's decorations for the Gallery of Philostratus painted at the Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, in 1842-43 (O. Weigmann, Schwind, des Meisters Werke, Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1906, p. 189). The more fully-realised volumes and delicate colours of the present drawing suggest that it was made as a finished presentation work.