
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004904Sheet of Sketches for a Monument to Dante (recto); Cupid and Psyche (verso)
by Isidore Pils
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).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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