Drawn with in brush and wash over black chalk, this fragment of a drawing depicts the flaying of Marsyas. To the left of the the composition the satyr Marsyas is shown, suspended by his hooves from a tree. His skin is pulled away by a young male figure. To the right, Apollo, identifiable by the cursorily modelled bow in his left hand and the quiver of arrows on his back, oversees the punishment. As noted by Popham and Wilde, the depiction of the subject, with Apollo employing a subordinate to carry out the flaying, is unusual (The Italian drawings of the XV and XVI centuries at Windsor Castle, p.331).