The Flaying of Marsyas
1526/1530
Artist, Parmese, 1503 - 1540

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown and black ink with brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on brown prepared laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 16.5 x 14.1 cm (6 1/2 x 5 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2010.93.14
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
L. G. Duke; to P. & D. Colnaghi & Col, Tod., London, 1955 (stock number A20841 on verso); to Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1958; gift to NGA in 2010.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991, no. 10 (as attributed to Bernardino Campi).
2012
The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 24-25, no. 1 (entry by Andaleeb Badiee Banta).
Bibliography
2012
Banta, Andaleeb Badiee. "A Parmigianino Drawing Rediscovered." Master Drawings 50, no. 1 (March 2012): 49-58, fig. 3, color fig. 1, 4a, 4b.
Inscriptions
by later hand, verso upper left in graphite, Flaying Marsyas; by later hand, verso center in graphite: Perino del Vaga, 1500-1547/ Photographed by BM/LGD; by later hand, verso lower right in graphite, A20841
Markings
black ink smudge at upper right (collector's stamp or printer's ink?)
Wikidata ID
Q64618812