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Ulysses Before Circe, Mercury Behind
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, upper left, in pen and black ink: "450 NF"; lower left, in pen and brown ink, on label: "Originale / di Gaetano Gandolfi / Maestro dell Academia / Clementina di Bologna (original by Gaetano Gandolfi, member of the Accademia Clementina of Bologna)"
Provenance
Property of a family trust; sold, Christie's, London, July 8, 2008, lot 45, to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 20, 2011, cat. 42 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gaetano Gandolfi / Italian, 1734–1802
- Date
- 1766
- Medium
- Red chalk, with touches of wetted red chalk, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 49.9 × 35.9 cm (19 11/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.72
More by Gaetano Gandolfi 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-00006035
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