About This Artwork

Gerard van Opstal
Flemish, c. 1597–1668

The Triumph of Silenus, c. 1660

Marble
36.8 x 53.3 cm (14 1/2 x 21 in.)
Restricted gifts of Mrs. Eloise W. Martin and Mrs. Edward J. Uihlein through the Antiquarian Society, Mrs. DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr., Mrs. Frederick K. Krehbiel; Major Aquisitions Centennial, Jane B. Tripp and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Varley endowments; through prior acquisitions of the Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1997.89

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

G. Bué-Akar, “Elements nouveaux concernant la vie et l’oeuvre de Gérard van Opstal, sculpteur ordinaire du roi,” Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français (1975), pp. 137-46.

Brussels, Musée d’art Ancien, La sculpture au siècle de Rubens (1977), pp. 250–54.

Musée du Noyonnais, Jacques Sarazin, Sculpteur du Roi (1992), pp. 136-41.

Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 154, 475 (September 2001), p. 5, fig. 5.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts Beyond Measure: The Antiquarian Society and European Decorative Arts, 1987–2002," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28, 2 (2002), p. 85 (ill.).

Ownership History

Daniel Katz, Limited, London, by 1997; sold to the Art Institute, 1997.