About This Artwork
Lattanzio Gambara
Italian, c. 1530-1574
Ceiling Design with Mars Driving His Chariot1565/1569
Pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), on tan laid paper
228 x 297 mm (max.)
Inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and brown ink: illegible
Gift of Mrs. Samuel E. Johnson, 1970.607
McCullagh & Giles 143
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Harold Joachim, compiled by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Sandra Haller Olsen, The Art Institute of Chicago, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 88, no. 3C4 (as Anonymous, Sixteenth Century, Northern Italy, Phaeton Riding on the Clouds) (ill. microfiche).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 112-13, no. 143 (ill.).
Ownership History
Given by Mrs. Samuel E. Johnson, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1970.