Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002503Ceiling Design with Mars Driving His Chariot
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and brown ink: illegible
Provenance
Given by Mrs. Samuel E. Johnson, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1970.
Publications
Harold Joachim, compiled by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Sandra Haller Olsen, The Art Institute of Chicago, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 88, no. 3C4 (as Anonymous, Sixteenth Century, Northern Italy, Phaeton Riding on the Clouds) (ill. microfiche). Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 112-13, no. 143 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lattanzio Gambara / Italian, c. 1530-1574
- Date
- 1565/69
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 × 29.7 cm (9 × 11 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Samuel E. Johnson
- Accession no.
- 1970.607
Open-access museum record · AT-00002503
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