Sketches after the Antique: Bacchic Revels; Neptune in His Chariot

Publications

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 129-30, no. 167 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Pirro Ligorio / Italian, c. 1513-1583
Date: c. 1535
Medium: Black chalk, with pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 9.3 × 21.2 cm (3 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: chalk with ink
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.5475

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.