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Minerva and the Nine Muses   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Johann König  (1586–1642)  wikidata:Q439439
 
Alternative names
Hans König, Johann Koenig
Description German painter
Date of birth/death 21 October 1586 (baptised) 4 March 1642 (buried)
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Nuremberg
Work period between circa 1605 and circa 1642
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1605-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1642-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Augsburg (1605), Venice (1606-1607), Rome (1610-1613), Nuremberg (....-1642)
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creator QS:P170,Q439439
Title
Minerva and the Nine Muses
label QS:Len,"Minerva and the Nine Muses"
label QS:Lde,"Minerva mit den neun Musen"
Description
The painting depicts the visit of Minerva to the Muses at Mount Helicon, mentioned by Ovid in his fifth Book of the Metamorphoses (Met. V. 250-268).
Date 1619-1622 (1624?)
Medium oil on copper
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q753,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 19.3 cm (7.5 in); width: 28.2 cm (11.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,19.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,28.2U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 9 February 1973, lot 106, for 4,800 Guineas to Scheidwimmer.
With Scheidwimmer, Munich.
With Julius Böhler, Munich.
Private collection, Germany.
Exhibition history 1985 - 2006? on loan at Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, inv. no. Dep. 481.
Inscriptions

Signature and date bottom left:

Jo. Kö (nig)/ f.: 16..
References Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 05023184
Source/Photographer 1. Unknown sourceUnknown source
2. Sotheby's London, 06 Dezember 2006, lot 3

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