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Apollo Flaying Marsyas

A work made of pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove card.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove card.

Date:

c. 1545

Artist:

Attributed to Luca Cambiaso
Italian, 1527-1585

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Luca Cambiaso

Title

Apollo Flaying Marsyas

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1540–1550

Medium

Pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove card

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, center on mount, in graphite: "Apollo flaying Marsyas / Basher Ave [?] 1523 / May 2 / 1842"; lower left, in graphite: "Luca Cambiaso / or / Cangiagio / B. 1527 D. 1585"

Dimensions

39.2 × 23.4 cm (15 7/16 × 9 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.557

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