Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005911Jupiter and Mnemosyne
by Jacob de Wit
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "JDewit / 1733"
Provenance
Sold, Christie’s, London, July 9, 2002, lot 66, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-une 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
A. Starling, Jacob de Wit, 1695–1754 (Amsterdam, 1958), cat. 93.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacob de Wit / Flemish, 1695-1754
- Date
- 1733
- Medium
- Pen and brown and black ink and brush and brown and gray wash, with watercolor, heightened with white gouache, over traces of graphite on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 44.9 × 31 cm (17 11/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Flanders
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1047
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