Mars (or Alexander?) Distributing the Victor's Wreaths

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.

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), pp. 224-25, no. 290 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Andrea Semino / Italian, c. 1525-1594
Date: 1560/65
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), over traces of black chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black chalk, tipped onto ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 12.7 × 24.3 cm (5 × 9 5/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: ink with wash
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.2293

Provenance

The Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

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