MUSES MUSES ON PARNASSUS, Tintoretto, Dresden Gallery ; canvas, H. 7 ft. x 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. x 3 ft. The Nine, with Apollo, noyers. This work was formerly attributed to Perino del Vaga. Villot, Cat. Louvre ; Filhol, x. PI. 002; Waagcn, Treasures, ii. 481. MUSIDORA, Thomas Gainsborough, Na- tional Gallery, London ; canvas, H. 6 f t. x 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. Ver- Dance of the Muses, Giulio Romano, Palazzo Pitti, Florence. who holds a violin and bow in his hand. Formerly in Brussels. Engraved by Van Hoy. Cat. 1H. MUSES AND PIERIDES, CONTEST BETWEEN, II HOMO, Louvre ; wood trans- ferred to canvas, H. 1 ft. x 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 Cotting- ton, who bought it in Spain of the Marquis of Crescentius ; sold to Jabach for 117 ; next belonged to Cardinal Mazariu, from whose heirs bought for Louis XIV. Engraved by Euea Vico; A. Veneziano ; Chauveau ; M. Des- non Collection, 1847. Engraved by P. Light- foot in Art Journal. Cat. Nat. Gal.; Art Journal (1853), 176. MTJSSCHER, MICHIEL VAN, born at Rotterdam, Jan. 27, 1645, died at Am- sterdam, Aug. 20, 1705. Dutch school ; portrait paint- er ; first in- structed by Martin Zaag- molen, then pu- pil of Abraham van den Tempel, of Metsu, and Adriaan van Ostade ; the influence of all these masters is discernible in his ex- 320
