The Flaying of Marsyas, 1526/1530

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown and black ink with brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on brown prepared laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 16.5 x 14.1 cm (6 1/2 x 5 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2010.93.14

Artists / Makers

Parmigianino (artist) Parmese, 1503 - 1540

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Marks and Labels

black ink smudge at upper right (collector's stamp or printer's ink?)

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

McCrindle, Joseph F.

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.