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Odysseus, at the Doors of Hades, Meets the Shades of Tiresias and Anticlea
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower left, in pen and black ink: "Joh. H. Lips inv: e fec: Roma 1785"; illegible inscription, verso of mount, center right, in graphite
Exhibition history
Rome, Paolo Antonacci, Aspetti dell’arte neoclassica a Roma, Sept. 26–Oct. 4, 2009, pp. 14–19, cat. 3 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Johann Heinrich Lips / Swiss, 1758–1817
- Date
- 1785
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and black ink wash, with brown ink wash, on blued-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 45.4 × 67 cm (17 7/8 × 26 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Switzerland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2023.3178
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland; sold anonymously, Kunst & Spiegel AG, Zurich, Oct. 26–28, 1932, lot 933 (as Mythologische Szene), to a Swiss art dealer. Mr. Zachmann; by descent to his son, Dr. Nico Zachmann, Basel and Rome; sold to Paolo Antonacci, Rome, 2009. Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg, 2009 [all provenance is according to Thomas Le Claire, email dated June 20, 2023]. Olivier Aaron (1947–2018), Paris; sold, Rémy Le Fur & Associés, Paris, Oct. 8, 2019, lot 89. Talabardon & Gauthier, Paris; sold Ader, Paris, Mar. 23, 2023, lot 208, to Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.
More by Johann Heinrich Lips 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-00006237
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