About This Artwork

Johann Michael Rottmayr
Austrian, 1654-1730

Jove casts his Thunderbolts at the Rebellious Giants, 1690/95

Oil on canvas
32 x 49 1/2 in. (81.3 x 125.2 cm)
Gift of Jacob S. Sherman, 1961.41

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, "German and Austrian Painting of the Eighteenth Century," 20 April–11 June 1978, no. 26.

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 405A.

Edward A. Maser, "Five Early Paintings by Johann Michael Rottmayr," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 2 (1967), pp. 19, 22–31, pl. 2.

Edward A. Maser, "Fünf frühe Gemälde des Johann Rottmayr," Alte und Moderne Kunst 24 (1979), pp. 1–4, ill. no. 5.

Erich Hubala, Johann Michael Rottmayr (Vienna, 1981) p. 182, no. G20, fig. 42.

Ownership History

Unknown Illinois banker; given by banker to Jacob S. Sherman, Chicago, during the 1930s as collateral for a loan that was never repaid [according to Robert Parker Sherman, son of Jacob S. Sherman, telephone conversation with Martha Wolff, 23 July 2003, transcribed in curatorial file]; bequeathed by Jacob S. Sherman (died 1961) to the Art Institute, 1961.