Art, literature & history
Apollo and Marsyas
1581
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 22.8 x 31 cm (9 x 12 3/16 in.) sheet: 23.1 x 31.2 cm (9 1/8 x 12 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2006.93.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Melchior Meier. Apollo and Marsyas. Melchior Meier; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melchior_Meier,_Apollo_and_Marsyas,_1581,_NGA_135624.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Apollo and Marsyas — Melchior Meier. 1581.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 22.8 x 31 cm (9 x 12 3/16 in.) sheet: 23.1 x 31.2 cm (9 1/8 x 12 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2006.93.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.