About This Artwork

Anton Domenico Gabbiani
Italian, 1652-1726

Apotheosis of Hercules, c. 1695

Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on blue-gray laid paper
256 x 369 mm
Inscribed, recto, lower right, in graphite: "Minèrve enlève Hercule / des bras d'Omphale"
Gift of Mrs. Leigh Block, 1961.883R

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 91, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Publication History

Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 137, no. 4G2.

Ownership History

Sold by Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York City [Lugt Suppl. 1882a], to the Art Institute, 1961.