Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002805Birth of Adonis
Provenance
Dr. Edward Peart (died 1824), London and Butterwick [Lugt 891]. Sold, Christie's, London, April 22, 1822, probably lot 9 or 11, to Molteno for £3.5s [a letter from Noel Annesley of Christie's of November 13, 1981 in curatorial file]. William Mayor (died 1874), London [Lugt 2799]. Sir Robert Ludwig Mond (died 1938), London [Lugt Suppl. 2813a]. W. D. Austin; sold, Christie's, London, April 7, 1970, lot 86, to Beer [sale catalogue price list]. Sold by Schaeffer Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1974.
Exhibition history
Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Italian Drawings 1780-1880," March 16-May 11, 1980; also traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, June 11-September 7; and The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, November 8, 1980-January 4, 1981; and the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, March 9-April 11, 1981.
Publications
William Mayor, A Brief Chronological Description of a Collection of Original Drawings and Sketches by the Old Masters of the different schools of Europe (London, 1875), no. 959. Tancred Borenius, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by Sir Robert Mond (London, before 1938), no. 57 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Suzanne McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 146 (ill.). Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 1A9.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Cipriani / Italian, 1727-1785
- Date
- 1775/1785
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, and brush and black and gray wash, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 26.9 × 40.9 cm (10 5/8 × 16 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink or chalk wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of the Ponte dell'Arte Society
- Accession no.
- 1974.25
More by Giovanni Battista Cipriani in museum collections
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003501
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003502
Two Sketches: Nude Child, Woman Reaching Toward Man with Lamb
Giovanni Battista Cipriani1762 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003503
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003504
Open-access museum record · AT-00002805
Powered by Art Trackers