The Contest between Apollo and Pan, Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671 , The Jan de Bisschop Collection

The Contest between Apollo and Pan, Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671

The Contest between Apollo and Pan, Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671 — The Contest between Apollo and Pan

Painter: Jan de Bisschop
Year: 1648 - 1671
Medium: pen

Description: Pan, the god of nature, was skilled at playing the pan pipes or pan flute (named after him), and he challenged Apollo, the god of music, to a musical contest. Naturally, Apollo won. King Midas disagreed with this verdict, choosing Pan’s plain piping over Apollo’s sublime strumming of the lyre. The enraged god punished Midas by giving him the ears of an ass.

The Jan de Bisschop Collection Catalog

Room 1

Constantine the Great Vanquishing the Tyrant Maxentius

Jan de Bisschop, 1638 - 1671
Satyr, carried by two putti and a young man

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Drapery on a Table

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Three dancing children

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Four heads of men, to the right

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Child's head seen from three sides

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Eight times the head of the Venus de' Medici

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
People and animals around a tree

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Woman at an altar

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
The Contest between Apollo and Pan

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Seated Nude Youth

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
A Painter Seated at his Easel

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671

Room 2

Portrait of Jan de Bisschop

Jan de Bisschop, 1657 - 1671
Amaryllis en Myrtillo

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Idyll by a fountain

Jan de Bisschop, 1667
St. Gregory (?) in a cave

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Heilige Catharina

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Allegory of the Power of Venus

Jan de Bisschop, 1638 - 1671
Jonge Bacchus staand

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Two fighting children

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Colosseum at Rome and some buildings nearby

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
View of a mill from the banks of the Rhine

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Portrait of Jacobus van Ewijk Reading a Book

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Paardenmarkt te Valkenburg

Jan de Bisschop, 1649

Room 3

View of the St. Laurens church in Alkmaar

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Constantijn Huygens II in the Garden of Hofwijk Manor

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Beckeneel house at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam

Jan de Bisschop, 1648
Two Sketches of Figures on the Dunes near Scheveningen

Jan de Bisschop, 1660
Ruin of the abbey and church at Rijnsburg

Jan de Bisschop, 1649
Westeinde in Den Haag

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Korte Voorhout in Den Haag

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Temple of Vesta in Tivoli

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Tusculum (Frascati) from the southwest

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Part of the thermal baths of Diocletian and S. Bernardo alle Terme

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Mountainous landscape in Italy

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Road through hilly landscape outside Brussels

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671

Room 4

Mountain road near Brussels

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
View of Haarlem from the dunes

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Ruin of the abbey of Rijnsburg

Jan de Bisschop, 1649
View of the Rhine

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
View of the Gouwe River

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Title Page Design for the Comedies of Terence

Jan de Bisschop, 1662
Offerdienaar

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Bank of a water, with trees and a house

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Koepoort te Leiden

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
The Pelican Bulwark in Leiden (?).

Jan de Bisschop, 1649
Outside the Hague's Westeinde

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
View of Rembrandt's mill, the ramparts near the Morspoort and the Pelican Bulwark

Jan de Bisschop, 1649

Room 5

Interior of the Burcht in Leiden

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Huis 't Velde te Warnsveld

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Battle between the Centaurs and Lapiths at the wedding of Perithoüs and Hippodamea

Jan de Bisschop, 1638 - 1671
Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths at the wedding of Pirithoüs and Hippodamea

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Ruins of Italian city wall with gate

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Oosterschelde for Bergen op Zoom

Jan de Bisschop, 1648
Mountainous landscape in Italy

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Two Sketches of Figures on the Dunes near Scheveningen

Jan de Bisschop, 1660
Side view of the Huis ter Nieuburch in Rijswijk

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
View of the Mauritshuis

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Lime kilns near Leiderdorp

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
A Sculpture Group in the Garden of Honselaarsdijk Castle

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671

Room 6

IJsseldijk between Gouda and Moordrecht

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
View of the Oostpoort in Delft

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
View of the St. Laurenskerk and the Kapelkerk in Alkmaar

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Hilly landscape with carts outside Brussels

Jan de Bisschop, 1649
Hilly landscape near the Namur Gate of Brussels

Jan de Bisschop, 1649
Hofwijck on the Vliet

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
View of the city wall of Leiden

Jan de Bisschop, 1651 - 1652
Haagse Bos

Jan de Bisschop, 1652
Portrait of Frederick Adriaensz. Westphalen

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1653
Mills on the rampart on either side of the Morspoort in Leiden

Jan de Bisschop, 1668 - 1697
The Departure of Charles II for England

Jan de Bisschop, 1660 - 1662
Albano seen from the West

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671

Room 7

Portrait of Ruardus Tapper

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Three figures

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671
Two children and a satyr

Jan de Bisschop, 1648 - 1671

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