Print Description
The music contest between Apollo and the satyr Marsyas. Apollo plays the lira da braccio while standing and Marsyas looks on with his pan flute in his hand.
Made by an anonymous engraver after Parmigianino.
Medium: Pen and washed ink on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: Fragmented: ‘NIC ?’.
Sheet size: 15 x 21.7 cm (5.91 x 8.54 inch). Image size: 14 x 20 cm. (5.51 x 7.87 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Minor toning, slight edges wear; otherwise excellent condition for the age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
APOLLO, MARSYAS, VIOLIN, SATYR, MYTHOLOGY, BAROQUE, NUDE, 18TH CENTURY DRAWING | EXPO-DRAWINGS
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
After the original drawing by Parmigianino by an anonymous artist. Late 17th – Early 18th Century.
Reference: Related to Bartsch 33, ‘Wedstrijd tussen Apollo en Marsyas’.
Biography artist: Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (1503-1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (“the little one from Parma”), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a “refined sensuality” and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the iconic if somewhat anomalous Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period.
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