Apollo and Marsyas
Apollo and Marsyas
- Artist
- Follower of Michelangelo, after the Antique
- Artist Dates
- 1475 -1564
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Apollo and Marsyas
- Date
- c. 1495/1535
- Medium
- marble
- Dimensions
- 41.2 x 31.4 cm (16 1/4 x 12 3/8 in)
- K Number
- K1600
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.1.5
- Notes
Provenance
Possibly Bartolomeo Cavaceppi [c. 1716-1799], Rome. [1] Outside wall of a house on the Lungarno delle Grazie, Florence; acquired from there by Baron Reinhold von Liphart, Dorpat and Munich-Grafeling, by 1891; [2] on consignment from September 1947 with (Paul Drey, New York); [3] sold 1948 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA. [1] Johann Joachim Winckelmann, _History of Ancient Art_, translated by Alexander Gode, New York, 1969[1764]: 258. [2] The sculpture had been discovered in Florence by Liphart's grandfather, Karl Eduard von Liphart (1808-1891), and the grandson's acquisition of the sculpture is described by Wilhelm von Bode, "Eine Marmorkopie Michelangelos nach dem antiken Cameo mit Apollo und Marsyas," _Jahrbuch des preussischen Kunstsammlungen_ 12 (1891): 167. Liphart is also listed as the owner in _Amtliche Berichte aus den Königlichen Kunst Sammlungen_, 1 July 1891: IV, no. 3, and he is cited as the lender of the sculpture in the catalogue of a 1935 exhibition at the Drey galleries in New York. [3] A statement by Drey in the dealer's prospectus for the sculpture (in NGA curatorial files) states that it had been "continuously" in his custody from the time it was shipped to New York in 1935 for exhibition, but that the "official permit for sale" was granted in September 1947. Charles de Tolnay's 1943 book, _The Youth of Michelangelo_ (vol. 1 of 5, Princeton, pp. 233-234), lists the sculpture as with a New York dealer at that time, but a note in Drey's prospectus specifically refutes this fact, indicating the sculpture belonged to von Liphart.