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Apollo and Marsyas

Michelangelo Anselmic. 1540

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States

  • Title: Apollo and Marsyas
  • Creator: Michelangelo Anselmi
  • Date Created: c. 1540
  • Physical Dimensions: overall: 55.9 x 117 cm (22 x 46 1/16 in.) framed: 75.6 x 136.2 x 8.6 cm (29 3/4 x 53 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
  • Provenance: Possibly John Francis Austen [d. 1893], London and Capel Manor, Horsmonden, Kent, England; probably by inheritance with house and contents to his widow, Mrs. John Fancis Austen [Georgiana F. Pearse]; (Austen sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 10 July 1931, no. 47, as by Cariani); purchased by (Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna). (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence and Rome); sold 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1939 to NGA.[2] [1] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/294. [2] Fern Rusk Shapley, _Catalogue of the Italian Paintings_, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: I:14-16.
  • Rights: CC0
  • Medium: oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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