Work Record
Class [controlled]: • prints and drawings  • European art
*Work Type [link]: • engraving (print)
*Title: Apollo, Pan, and a Putto Blowing a Horn
*Creator Display: Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, ca. 1520-1582), after a painting by Primaticcio
*Role [link]: printmaker  [link]: Ghisi, Giorgio
*Creation Date: 1560s  [controlled]: • Earliest: 1560  • Latest: 1569
*Subject [links]: • religion and mythology  • landscape (representation)  • Apollo  • Pan  • putto  • competition  • human figure  • male  • music  • horn  • Ovid (Roman, 43 BCE-17 CE), Metamorphoses
*Current Location [link]: Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Special Collections (Los Angeles, California, United States)  • ID: 2000.PR.2
*Measurements: plate mark: 29.6 x 17 cm, folio: 30.7 x 18.3 cm
[controlled]: Extent: plate mark  • Value: 29.6  Unit: cm  Type: height  |  • Value: 17  Unit: cm  Type: width  ||  Extent: folio  • Value: 30.7  Unit: cm  Type: height  |  • Value: 18.3  Unit: cm  Type: width
*Materials and Techniques: copper engraving on laid paper
Material [links]: • laid paper  • black ink   Technique [links]: • copper engraving
State: 5 of 5
Description: The subject of this print comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the musical competition between Pan and Apollo. The engraving is after a lost painting by Primaticcio in the vault of the fourth bay of the Galerie d'Ulysse at Fontainebleau. It is one of four prints based on compositions surrounding a central image of Venus and the three fates.
Related Work:
      Relationship Type [controlled]: after
      [link to Related Work]: Francesco Primaticcio (Italian, 1504-1570);       Apollo, Pan, and Putto, lost painting, formerly in a vault in Galerie       d'Ulysse, Fontainebleau (Ile-de-France, France)

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