The Musical Contest Between Apollo and Pan, c. 1766

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series Title

Disegni originali d'Eccellenti Pittori esistenti nella R. Galleria di Firenze (Original Drawings by Excellent Painters in the Royal Gallery of Florence)

Medium

etching and sulfur tint printed in blue on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 37.9 × 50 cm (14 15/16 × 19 11/16 in.)

sheet: 43.7 × 57.2 cm (17 3/16 × 22 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Andrée and Jonathan Bober, in honor of Andrew Robison

Catalogue Raisonné

Le Blanc 1854 - 1888, no. 8 (series)

Accession Number

2016.137.1

Artists / Makers

Andrea Scacciati (artist) Italian, 1725 - 1771

Bartholomaeus Spranger (artist after) Netherlandish, 1546 - 1611

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Spranger inven, et del:; lower right in plate: Scacciati incid:; by later hand, lower left in graphite: The contest of Apollo and Marsyas after Bartholomaus Spranger 1726 - 71; by later hand, lower right in graphite: L 15-VAT;

Bibliography

1854: Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels: no. 8 (series)