MUSES ON PARNASSUS, Tintoretto, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 7 ft. × 10 ft. 8 in. The nine Muses and the Graces on Parnassus; above them, Apollo. Painted for the Emperor Rudolph II. Brought from Prague by Johann Georg I. Placed in the gallery in 1725 by Leplat; taken from the Kunstkammer.—Cat. (1876), 141.
By Tintoretto, Vienna Museum; canvas, H. 1 ft. 8 in. × 3 ft. The Nine, with Apollo, who holds a violin and bow in his hand. Formerly in Brussels. Engraved by Van Hoy.—Cat. 13.
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Dance of the Muses, Giulio Romano, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
MUSES AND PIERIDES, CONTEST
BETWEEN, Il Rosso, Louvre; wood transferred
to canvas, H. 1 ft. × 2 ft. Apollo,
Minerva, Bacchus, Mercury, and nymphs,
on the summit of Parnassus, preside at the
contest between the Muses (left) and the
daughters of Pierus (right), who, on being
conquered, were metamorphosed into birds
(Ov. Met., v. 295). Belonged to Charles I.,
to whom it was presented by Lord Cottington,
who bought it in Spain of the Marquis of
Crescentius; sold to Jabach for £117; next
belonged to Cardinal Mazarin, from whose
heirs bought for Louis XIV. Engraved by
Enea Vico; A. Veneziano; Chauveau; M. Desnoyers.
This work was formerly attributed
to Perino del Vaga.—Villot, Cat. Louvre;
Filhol, x. Pl. 692; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 481.
MUSIDORA, Thomas Gainsborough, National
Gallery, London; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 5
ft. Musidora, partly nude, seated on the
bank of a shaded stream, has one foot in
the water and is loosening the sandal of the
other (Thomson's "Summer"). The only
nude figure painted by Gainsborough. Vernon
Collection, 1847. Engraved by P. Lightfoot
in Art Journal.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Art
Journal (1853), 176.
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MUSSCHER, MICHIEL VAN, born at
Rotterdam,
Jan. 27, 1645,
died at Amsterdam,
Aug.
20, 1705.
Dutch school;
portrait painter;
first instructed
by
Martin Zaagmolen,
then pupil
of Abraham van den Tempel, of Metsu,
and Adriaan van Ostade; the influence of
all these masters is discernible in his ex-
