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Description: Pan and Syrinx. Laid down. Numbered in pen and brown ink at lower right: 479 and 51 (cancelled).

This is a characteristic compositional drawing by Mola, showing the nymph hiding behind the reeds, which Pan is clutching, while the river is symbolised by an old man, accompanied by a water sprite, reclining against an urn from which a spring is flowing to the left. Turner notes that the easy-going tone is reminiscent of some of Poussin's mythological pictures from the 1620s.

Cocke has documented a painting by Mola with this subject that was once owned by Carlo Maratta and sold by his daughter Faustina in 1722 to Spain. A painting "Paesaggio con ninfe e satiri" with some compositional similarities has appeared in the art market.

A Louvre drawing presnts a different interpretation of the theme. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 786]

an och Syrinx