Marsyas Tied to a Tree

Prints and Drawings

c. 1550

Follower of Baccio Bandinelli
Italian, 1493-1560

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Follower of Baccio Bandinelli
Title: Marsyas Tied to a Tree
Place: Florence (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.: 1550
Medium: Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper, tipped onto gray card
Dimensions: 28.4 × 20.5 cm (11 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.2055
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Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 13-14, no. 13 (ill.).

Smith College Museum of Art, Northapmton, “Antiquity in the Renaissance,” April 6-June 6, 1978.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 10-July 22, 1997.

Dr. William Ogle (1827-1905), London; sold Sotheby’s, London, Feb. 3, 1916, lot 175, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower left of mount and center of secondary mount, in black].

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