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 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.

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.

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