Ten illustrations associated with Goethe's Wilhelm Tischbeins Idyllen: 1. Apollo beim Lyraspiel (Apollo with a lyre, singing to assembled gods and heros) 2. Cupid before Jupiter, Neptune and Vulcan 3. Vulkan und Venus 4. Mars und Venus 5. Die drei Grazien (The Three Graces) 6. Schafe mit Lämmern (Sheep with lambs) 7. A satyr trapping a rabbit among vines and sheaves of corn 8. Minerva with five handmaidens 9. A nymph transformed into a willow-tree 10. An infant raised by a peasant family

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Ten illustrations associated with Goethe's Wilhelm Tischbeins Idyllen:
1. Apollo beim Lyraspiel (Apollo with a lyre, singing to assembled gods and heros)
2. Cupid before Jupiter, Neptune and Vulcan
3. Vulkan und Venus
4. Mars und Venus
5. Die drei Grazien (The Three Graces)
6. Schafe mit Lämmern (Sheep with lambs)
7. A satyr trapping a rabbit among vines and sheaves of corn
8. Minerva with five handmaidens
9. A nymph transformed into a willow-tree
10. An infant raised by a peasant family
black chalk, pen and grey ink, watercolor heightened with white (1-5, 7), watermarks Pro Patria with APAULI (3, 8), Pro Patria (5-6, 9-10), on milled paper (7), in contemporary mounts (1-6, 8-10)
13 x 19¼ in. (332 x 490 mm.); (2-3) 9 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. (250 x 206 mm.); 10 x 8¼ in. (255 x 209 mm.); 9¾ x 7 7/8 in. (249 x 200 mm.); 16½ x 13 1/8 in. (422 x 336 mm.); 9 1/8 x 7¼ in. (233 x 188 mm.); 10 x 8¼ in. (254 x 210 mm.); 10¼ x 8 in. (261 x 205 mm.); 12 5/8 x 8 in. (320 x 202 mm.); and Two preparatory drawings for (5) The Three Muses in black chalk on light brown paper (12)

拍品專文

The compositions are related to Tischbein's pictures for the Oldenburg Idyllenzyklus, delivered to Duke Peter of Oldenburg in 1821. Tischbein sent Goethe watercolors of these compositions in May 1821, and he used them as the starting point for his verse cycle Wilhelm Tischbeins Idyllen.
(1) The composition for Apollo beim Lyraspiel is derived from Tischbein's line engraving of a scene on one of Sir William Hamilton's collection of classical vases (J.H.W. Tischbein, Collection of engravings from ancient vases discovered in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies between 1789-90, Naples, 1795, III, pl. 5).
(6-7 and 9-11) Illustrated in plate III, p. 134.