Blenheim Palace Sarcophagus: Bacchanale with Lion's Head
Girolamo da Carpi · 1549/53
Provenance
Ownership history
- Frederick R. Aikman; sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Mar. 14, 1913, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right and verso, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Marita Horster, "Eine unbekannte Renaissance-Zeichnung nach römischen Sarkophagen," Archäologischer Anzeiger, Beiblatt zum Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 90 (1975), pp. 417ff.
- Lubomir Konecny, "Eine Zeichnung Battista Francos im Schlesischen Museum zu Opava, Arte Veneta 31 (1977), pp. 53-59.
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 117-18, no. 149 (ill.).
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