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Daedalus and Icarus
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "184"; lower center on mount, in graphite: "Daedalus and Icarus / from the Collections of / Count Bianconi, T. Dimsdale + Sir. T Lawrence."; upper right on mount, in graphite: "117"
Provenance
Count Bianconi [London 1972 auc. cat.]. Thomas Dimsdale (1758–1823) [his stamp (Lugt 2426) verso, lower left on mount, in black]. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) [his dry stamp (Lugt 2445) recto, lower left]; Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800–1857) [his stamp (Lugt Suppl. 2710b) recto, lower center, in black]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, December 5, 1972, lot 61, to Robert M. Light, Boston, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.
Exhibition history
London, Lawrence Gallery, Fifth Exhibition, nos. 1 and 3.
Publications
Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House (London, 1898), no. 7.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano / Italian, c. 1499-1546
- Date
- early 1530s
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, over incising, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 34.3 × 26.4 cm (13 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1998.96
More by Giulio Romano in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005727
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