AT-00006212
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Chiron Teaching Achilles to Shoot with the Bow
Inscriptions
Signed lower center, in black crayon: "A Thorvaldsen Fecit"
Provenance
Probably given by the artist to a private collector, Rome. Dr. Bauer, Munich [according to Thomas Le Claire email correspondence 2019]; sold, Karl & Faber, Munich, June 4, 1997, lot 462, to Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg; offered to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Bertel Thorvaldsen / Danish, 1770-1844
- Date
- after 1810
- Medium
- Black chalk with white chalk on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 37.2 × 43.3 cm (14 11/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Denmark
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.924
More by Bertel Thorvaldsen in museum collections
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