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Daedalus and Icarus
Giulio Romano · early 1530s
Provenance
Ownership history
- Count Bianconi [London 1972 auc. cat.]. Thomas Dimsdale (1758–1823) [his stamp (Lugt 2426) verso, lower left on mount, in black]. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) [his dry stamp (Lugt 2445) recto, lower left]; Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800–1857) [his stamp (Lugt Suppl. 2710b) recto, lower center, in black]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, December 5, 1972, lot 61, to Robert M. Light, Boston, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Lawrence Gallery, Fifth Exhibition, nos. 1 and 3.
Literature
Published references
- Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House (London, 1898), no. 7.
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