Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun by Lelio Orsi
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Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun

Lelio Orsi · 1544/45

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

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.

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