The Flaying of Marsyas
1570/1575
Paolo Farinati
Artist, Veronese, 1524 - 1606
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with gray and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white on greenish laid paper (originally blue)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 39.9 × 27.5 cm (15 11/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2007.111.78
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Eberhard Jabach, Paris [1610 - 1695]; (Lugt 960a) and (Lugt 2959c); Bernhard Funck [1895-1993], Munich (not in Lugt); Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen [1943-1997], Vaduz and Munich; purchased by NGA, 2007.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1965
Zeichnungen alter Meister aus deutschem Privatbesitz, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunsthalle, Bremen; Graphische Sammlung, Stuttgart. Stuttgart, 1965, no. 7, pl. 92..
1977
Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts, Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, no. 23 (entry by Richard Harprath).
1979
Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Kunstmuseum Lucerne. Lucerne, 1979, no. 70 (not reproduced).
1995
Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 3.
1996
Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 3.
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 8.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 27.
2018
Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019, not in cat.
Bibliography
1968
Puppi, Lionello. Paolo Farinati. Giornale (1573 - 1606). Florence, 1968: 4, note 2, fig. 4.
1969
Puppi, Lionello. "Asterichi per il Farinati grafico" _Arte Illustrata_2, 22-24 (October-December 1969): 54.
1973
Hocke, Gustave Rene, and Uwe Bremer. Manierismus in der Kunst. Munchen: Hartmann-Bibliothek (1973): illus. not numbered.
1974
Carpeggiani, Paolo. "Paolo Farinati," in Maestri della Pittura Veronese. Edited by Pierpaolo Brugnoli. Verona, 1974: 234.
1977
Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1977: 58.
1982
Bohlin, Diane De Grazia. "Paolo Farinati in the Palazzo Giuliari: Frescoes and Preparatory Drawings." Master Drawings 20, no. 4 (Winter 1982): 360, 361, 368, note 42, 369, note 48.
1995
Lachenmann, David. Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Vaduz, 1995: no. 3.
1996
Lachenmann, David. Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. Exh. cat. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996: no. 3.
2001
Py, Bernadette. Everhard Jabach, Collectionneur (1618-1695): Les dessins de l'inventaire de 1695. Paris, 2001: 176, no. 730.
2005
Paolo Farinati 1524-1606: Dipinti, incisioni e disegni per l'architettura. Museo del Castelvecchio, Verona, 2005, 199, under no. 183.
2011
Italian Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1525-1835. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011: 30-31.
2018
Marciari, John.Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice. Exh. cat. Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019.
Inscriptions
verso of mount: seventeenth century red chalk "f.o" and paraphe; modern graphite: "P. Farinati" and other illegible inscription
Wikidata ID
Q64618801