Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005797Alexander's Confidence with his Physician Philip
Inscriptions
Possibly signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "B. West"; inscribed verso, lower left on mount, in graphite: "Benj. West."; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Doct. Partridge/ with Mrs. Margary‘s" [?]; lower right, in graphite: "KE"
Provenance
Mrs. Margary; given to Doctor Partridge [inscription on the mount]. E. Maurice Bloch; sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 9, 1991, lot 30, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings," Dec. 11 1998–Mar. 28, 1999, checklist 40. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 69, cat. 40 (ill.).
Publications
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 69, cat. 40 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Benjamin West / American, 1738-1820
- Date
- c. 1770
- Medium
- Brush and brown and black wash, with tan gouache, heightened with white gouache, with incising, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 21.8 × 30 cm (8 5/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 30.1 × 36.9 cm (11 7/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- wash
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1045
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