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Marsyas

Balthasar Permoser

ca. 1680–85

Medium

Marble on a black marble socle inlaid with light marble panels

Tags

Suffering Satyrs

Dimensions

confirmed: 27 × 17 3/8 × 11 1/8 in., 133.8 lb. (68.6 × 44.1 × 28.3 cm, 60.7 kg) socle, confirmed: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm) yellow marble display column (wt confirmed): 644 lb. (295.7 kg)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 2002

Classification

Sculpture

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

German, executed Rome or Florence

Rights

Public Domain

About Balthasar Permoser

1651–1732 • Germany

Permoser, one of the foremost German Baroque sculptors, was born in Bavaria. He trained in Salzburg with Wolf Weissenkirchner the younger and in Vienna. In 1677, he moved to Florence where he worked for the Medici Dukes in a workshop run by Giovanni Battista Foggini. He spent the duration of his career in Dresden working for the court of the Elector of Saxony. Comment on works: sculptor

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