Four nymphs tying Pan to a tree

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.