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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Olympus by Lorenzo de' Ferrari
    Lorenzo de' Ferrari. Olympus, 1743/1744. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00004433

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    Olympus

    by Lorenzo de' Ferrari

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, February 2-May 8, 1990 (installation).

    Publications

    Jean-Claude Boyer, “Pierre Mignard (1612-1695). La donation Baderou au Musée de Rouen,” Etudes de la revue du Louvre et des Musées de France I (1980), pp. 45-46, fig. 2. The Burlington Magazine (November 1982), p. 8 (ill.). Mary Newcome-Schleier, “Dessins de l”École génoise dans les collections publiques,” La revue du Louvre et des Musées de France, 35 (1985), p. 212, note 16. Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, “A Drawing by Lorenzo de' Ferrari in the Louvre,“ Master Drawings, 23-24 (Summer 1986), pp. 229-31. Lawrence Turcic, “Review of Le dessin à Gênes du XVIème au XVIIIème siècle,” Master Drawings, 23-24 (Summer 1986), p. 243, notes 14-16, pl. 53. “From Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17:1 (2000), pp. 32-33, no. 9 (ill.). Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Olympus, or Venus Interceding with Jove on Behalf of Aeneas, 1743/44,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 32-33, no. 9.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Lorenzo de' Ferrari / Italian, 1680-1744
    Date
    1743/1744
    Medium
    Brush and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on tan laid paper
    Dimensions
    90 × 69 cm (35 7/16 × 27 3/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Purchased with funds provided by the Regenstein Foundation
    Accession no.
    1982.1485

    Provenance

    Private Collection, Paris, 1980. Sold by Richard Collins, New York, to the Art Institute, 1982.

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