Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006190Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun
by Lelio Orsi
Provenance
Sir William Forbes, 7th Baronet of Pitsligo (1773–1820), Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, possibly acquired through James Irvine (1757–1831); by descent to his son, Sir John Stuart Hepburn-Forbes, 8th Baronet of Pitsligo (1804–1866); by inheritance to his son-in-law, Charles Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton (1834–1904); by descent; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 25, 2017, lot 9, through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp. 24-25, cat. 4, p. 105, fig. 4.3, p. 130. GC 6, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lelio Orsi / Italian, 1508 or 1511–1587
- Date
- 1544/45
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white opaque watercolor, with incising, on cream laid paper prepared with a light brown wash, laid down on thick laid paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 24.7 × 33.4 cm (9 3/4 × 13 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 32.2 × 40.9 cm (12 11/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.855
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