The Flaying of Marsyas

1570/1575

Paolo Farinati

Artist, Veronese, 1524 - 1606

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white on greenish laid paper (originally blue)

  • Credit Line

    Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 39.9 × 27.5 cm (15 11/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    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.

Inscriptions

verso of mount: seventeenth century red chalk "f.o" and paraphe; modern graphite: "P. Farinati" and other illegible inscription

Wikidata ID

Q64618801

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