Pan and Syrinx

Title

Pan and Syrinx

Draughtsman

• Filippo Lauri ?

Period Produced

• 17th century
• 16th century

School

• early Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• paper

Technique

• pen drawing

Geographic Reference

• Roman

Production Reason

• composition study
• pen work?

Captions Added Later

Bezeichnet auf dem Montierungsbogen unten rechts (mit der Feder in Braun): [unleserlich] / Filippo Lauri.; verso bezeichnet auf dem Montierungsbogen unten mittig (mit der Feder in Braun): No. 5 / No. 20 // Filippo Lauri.
Verso auf dem Montierungsbogen unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• mythological representation

Persons Shown

• Pan
• Syrinx

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Ovid

Illustrated Passage

• Ovid: Metamorphosen, 1, 689-713

Primary

• 97BB5 Syrinx changed into a reed: while fleeing from Pan, the nymph Syrinx is changed into reed by her sisters, the Naiads (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 705)

Alternative Attribution

• Agostino Carracci draughtsman; by note on mount
• Agostino Carracci circle; draughtsman; by note on mount, alternatively