Landscape with Apollo and the Muses, 1674, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash and white gouache, over traces of graphite, on blue-green paper, 9 3/8 x 12 5/8 in. (23. 8 x 32. 1 cm), Drawings, Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee) (French, Chamagne 1604/5? ?1682 Rome), This work belongs to a group of five drawings dated 1674 that bear witness to Claude?s ongoing interest in the theme of Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus. This subject was very popular in 17th-century Rome: it was featured in one of the celebrated murals that Raphael had painted in the Vatican, and it served to glorify the patron concerned as a protector of the arts