About This Artwork

Lorenzo de' Ferrari
Italian, 1680-1744

Olympus, 1743/1744

Brush and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on tan laid paper
900 x 690 mm
Restricted gift of the Regenstein Foundation, 1982.1485

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, February 2-May 8, 1990 (installation).

Publication History

Jean-Claude Boyer, “Pierre Mignard (1612-1695). La donation Baderou au Musée de Rouen,” Etudes de la revue du Louvre et des Musées de France I (1980), pp. 45-46, fig. 2.

The Burlington Magazine (November 1982), p. 8 (ill.).

Mary Newcome-Schleier, “Dessins de l”École génoise dans les collections publiques,” La revue du Louvre et des Musées de France, 35 (1985), p. 212, note 16.

Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, “A Drawing by Lorenzo de' Ferrari in the Louvre,“ Master Drawings, 23-24 (Summer 1986), pp. 229-31.

Lawrence Turcic, “Review of Le dessin à Gênes du XVIème au XVIIIème siècle,” Master Drawings, 23-24 (Summer 1986), p. 243, notes 14-16, pl. 53.

“From Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17:1 (2000), pp. 32-33, no. 9 (ill.).

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Olympus, or Venus Interceding with Jove on Behalf of Aeneas, 1743/44,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 32-33, no. 9.

Ownership History

Private Collection, Paris, 1980. Sold by Richard Collins, New York, to the Art Institute, 1982.