Apollo and Marsyas

c. 1600

Veronese

Artist, Venetian, 1528 - 1588

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 29.5 x 43 cm (11 5/8 x 16 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.48.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Prince W. Argoutinsky-Dolgoronkoff, St. Petersburg and Paris (Lugt 2602d) (sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1923, no. 24, as Veronese); Maurice de Marignane (Lugt 1872); his son, Hubert de Marignane; (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); NGA purchase in 1973.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 26.

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 97.

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

2018

  • Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019, not in cat.

Bibliography

n.d.

  • William H. Schab Gallery. Catalogue 48, Master Drawings & Prints, 1500-1960. New York, n.d.: no. 130 (as Paolo Farinati).

2017

  • Meijer, Bert W. Il disegno veneziano, 1580-1650 : ricostruzioni storico-artistiche. Florence, 2017: 104, note 71, and 182, note 38, as workshop of Veronese or follower of Veronese, possibly Carletto.

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower left: Paolo

Wikidata ID

Q64536926

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