Crucified Christ or Marsyas

Provenance

Unidentified collector (possibly Dr. Barry Delany) [script (BD; Lugt 350?), verso, lower center on mount, in pen and brown ink]; possibly sold, Sotheby, London, June 5, 1872, lot 166, album of 311 Drawings, chiefly Italian School. Walter T. Spencer, London [according to Gurley Card Index]. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].

Crucified Christ or Marsyas

Follower of Michelangelo Buonarroti

1585/95

Accession Number

82324

Medium

Pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), on cream laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

36.9 × 25.6 cm (14 9/16 × 10 1/8 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection