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Amphion and Zethus Delivering their Mother Antiope from the Fury of Dirce and Lycus
by John Flaxman
Inscriptions
Signed, inscribed, and dated lower left, in pen and gray-brown ink: "Flaxman, Roma 1789"
Provenance
Private collection, New York, to 2012. Sold by Lowell Libson, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA, Nov. 2012; 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-June 15, 2014, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing," Nov. 16, 2017-Apr. 1, 2018, no cat.
Publications
Lowell Lisbon Limited, British Paintings and Works on Paper 2013, (London 2013) p. 41.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Flaxman / English, 1755-1826
- Date
- 1789
- Medium
- Pen and gray ink and brush and gray wash, over graphite, on gray laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 16.1 × 29.2 cm (6 3/8 × 11 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 23.3 × 35.7 cm (9 3/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.939
More by John Flaxman in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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