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Chryses Imploring the Help of Apollo, from Iliad, Book I
Provenance
Sale, Bukowski’s, Stockholm, Sept. 27, 1916, lot 73 (incorrect image). Sold by Henry Avar (born 1954), Paris, through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Apr. 9, 2012 [Stockholms Auktionsverk, Dec. 7, 2011, lot 1943]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Inscriptions
No inscriptions recto; signed verso, l.r., brown ink, "Sergell"
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing, 2017–18 (no cat.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 68, cat. 37, p. 138, GC 71.
Publications
Harald Brising, “Sergels teckningar till Homerus och Virgilius,” Tidskrift för konstvetenskap, nos. 1–2 (1917), pp. 138–44, pls. 1–2. Harald Brising, “Sergels teckningar till Homerus och Virgilius,” in Harald Brising and August Hahr, Antik och nyantik (n.p., 1921), pp. 374–75, fig. 283. Oscar Antonsson, Sergels ungdom och Romtid (Norstedts förlag, 1942), p. 83. Ragnar Josephson, Sergels fantasi (Natur och Kultur, 1956), vol. 1, pp. 71–72, 330 n. 71; pls. 69–70.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Johan Tobias Sergel / Swedish, 1740-1814
- Date
- 1765/66
- Medium
- Black chalk on off-white laid paper, tipped onto wove paper
- Dimensions
- 43.3 × 34.8 cm (17 1/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Sweden
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.886
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