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AT-00002329Cupid Advises Calypso to Set Fire to Mentor’s Ship, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 7
Provenance
Sold by Walter Schatzki (died 1983), New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.
Exhibition history
Norton, Mass., Wheaton College, "Italian Drawings," March 1980-January 1981; also traveled to Princeton, N.J., Princeton Art Museum, Spring, 1979. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gods and (Super)heroes: Drawing in an Age of Revolution", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
Publications
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 2G12.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Bartolomeo Pinelli / Italian, 1781-1835
- Date
- 1808
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
- Dimensions
- Sight: 45.6 × 58 cm (18 × 22 7/8 in.); Overall: 55.8 × 66.5 cm (22 × 26 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Wirt D. Walker Fund
- Accession no.
- 1963.568
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