About This Artwork
after Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio
Italian, c. 1499-c. 1543
Family of Darius before Alexandern.d.
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
181 x 222 mm
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1993.248.1814
McCullagh & Giles 593
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), no. 593 (ill.).
Ownership History
Van Parijs [McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Baron Macartney, Parkhurst, Surrey [McCullagh and Giles 1997]; by descent to MaCartney family, to 1854 [McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Frederick R. Aikman, England [McCullagh and Giles 1997]; sold, Puttick and Simpson, London, March 14, 1913, to William F. E. Gurley (1854-1943), Chicago [McCullagh and Giles 1997]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1943.