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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Sheet of Sketches for a Monument to Dante (recto); Cupid and Psyche (verso)
    Isidore Pils. Sheet of Sketches for a Monument to Dante (recto); Cupid and Psyche (verso), c. 1808. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004904

    Sheet of Sketches for a Monument to Dante (recto); Cupid and Psyche (verso)

    by Isidore Pils

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Sold by Knoedler and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1956.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 74, as "Minerva, Poet Laureate and Other Studies." (recto) Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 28 (ill.) (verso). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 68-69, cat. 30 (ill.) (recto).

    Publications

    Vallery-Radot, French Drawings (New York, 1964), p. 105 (ill.) (recto). “Recent Acquisitions,” The Art Quarterly 19 (1956), p. 422 (recto). Lu Bro, Drawing: A Studio Guide (New York, 1978), p. 126 (ill.) (recto). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks from the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E1 and 2E2 (recto). Sylvain Laveissiere, Prud’hon: La Justice et la Vengence Divine Pour Suivant le Crime (Paris, 1986) (recto).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Isidore Pils / French, 1813-1875
    Date
    c. 1808
    Medium
    Brush and brown ink, and white gouache, over graphite (recto and verso), on blue laid paper
    Dimensions
    28.9 × 44.5 cm (11 7/16 × 17 9/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    drawings (visual works)
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund
    Accession no.
    1956.57

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