print
- Museum number
- W,4.109
- Description
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Marsyas seated at the right disputing with Apollo who stands at the left holding a violin, after Parmigianino; the right half only of a composition with Pan on the left. 1540s
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in green and black
- Production date
- 1540-1550 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 210 millimetres (oval format cut irregularly)
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Width: 142 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- After a drawing by Parmigianino in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (Inv. No. IV 44). (A. E. Popham, Catalogue of Drawings by Parmigianino, 1971, vol. I, p. 124, no. 319). See for the complete composition 1867,0713.94+.
Attributed by Bartsch tentatively to Ugo da Carpi. Re-attributed to Vicentino by Naoko Takahatake, 'The chiaroscuro woodcut in Renaissance Italy', Los Angeles 2018, cat.46, and dated to the 1540s. This impression was reprinted by Andrea Andreani c.1602-10.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2001 Feb-May, NY, Met Mus of Art, 'Correggio and Parmigianino'
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- W,4.109