Jan van ORLEY
Apollo flaying Marsyas
(1685-1735)

Medium
etching; laid down

Measurements
15.5 × 19.7 cm (image) 16.0 × 19.9 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1925

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Hollstein XIV.4

Edition
only state

Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: j. v. orley. in: et fecit.

Accession Number
1660-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Subjects (general)
Human Figures Religion and Mythology Violence

Subjects (specific)
Apollo (Greco-Roman deity) contests flayings (executions) lyres Marsyas (Greek deity) panpipes suffering torturing

Movements
Baroque