Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005983The Sacrifice of Pelias to Neptune
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower center, in brush and brown ink: “Macc…”
Provenance
Paolo Coccapani, bishop of Reggio Emilia, by 1640. George, Third Earl of Cholmondeley [stamps (Lugt 537 and 1149), recto, lower left, in black]. Alistair Matthews, Poole, Dorset. P. G. Waite, Madison, Wisconsin, by 1974; sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 7, 2005, lot 112. Sold by W. M. Brady, New York, to Jean and Steven Goldman, 2007; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Drawn to Italian Drawings: The Goldman Collection, Oct 18, 2008–Jan. 18, 2009, pp. 202–03, 316, cat. 84 (color ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection, Nov. 1, 2014–Feb. 1, 2015, hors cat..
Publications
Le dessin à Bologne, 1580–1620: La réforme des trois Carrachi (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1994), pp. 64–65, under no. 40. Ann Sutherland Harris, “Agostino Carracci’s Inventions: Pen-and-Ink Studies, 1582–1602,” Master Drawings 38:4 (2000), pp. 400–02, fig. 10. Ann Sutherland Harris, “Letter,” Master Drawings 39 (2001), p. 435. Alessandro Brogi, Ludovico Carracci (Bologna: Ozzano Emilia, 2001), vol. I:113.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Agostino Carracci / Italian, 1557–1602
- Date
- 1584
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black chalk
- Dimensions
- 42.4 × 56.6 cm (16 3/4 × 22 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Jean and Steven Goldman
- Accession no.
- 2018.798
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