Death of Adonis (?)

Provenance

Sold by The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia, to the Art Institute, 1945.

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

Artist: Hubert François Gravelot / French, 1699-1773
Date: n.d.
Medium: Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk, squared in red chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 16.5 × 12 cm (6 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: chalk
Place: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Accession no.: 1945.63.3

Study for Vignette in Voltaire's "La Pucelle d'Orleans", with Sketches of Heads and Nude Figures
Hubert François Gravelot
c. 1762 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003015
Unidentified Literary Illustration with a Group of Figures Surrounding Reclining Figure in Landscape
Hubert François Gravelot
n.d. · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003016
Literary Illustration with Gentleman and Two Ladies in Interior
Hubert François Gravelot
n.d. · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003018
Literary Illustration: Man with Sword Confronting Group of Figures Before Building
Hubert François Gravelot
n.d. · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003019