Flaying of Marsyas

Description

A landscape painter and engraver, Mauperché was a student of Louis de Boullogne the elder and one of the founders of the Royal Academy. Influenced by Flemish and Dutch artists, as well as by Claude Lorrain, he produced an important graphic oeuvre of more than fifty prints, almost all of his own invention.

Flaying of Marsyas

Henri Mauperché

n.d.

Accession Number

27915

Medium

Etching on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 18.6 × 25.9 cm (7 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Plate: 19.8 × 27 cm (7 13/16 × 10 11/16 in.); Sheet: 20 × 27.3 cm (7 7/8 × 10 3/4 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Hannan Fund