Phaeton Driving the Chariot of Phoebus

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1475/1500

Northern Italian; possibly Verona

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Unknown artist
Title: Phaeton Driving the Chariot of Phoebus
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1475–1500
Medium: Tempera or distemper on canvas
Dimensions: 55.3 × 55.6 cm (21 3/4 × 21 13/16 in.); Framed: 68.3 × 68.9 × 7.7 cm (26 7/8 × 27 1/8 × 3 in.)
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1984.27
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American Art Sales (Washington D.C., 1924), p. 7.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 249, 474, 572.
Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 82–85, ill.
Hans-Joachim Eberhardt, “Sulle tracce degli affreschi scomparsi di Sant’Anastasia” in Pisanello, ed. Paola Marini, exh. cat. Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, 1996, pp. 178, 181, ill. (detail).
Marcella Morongiu, ‘Currus aurigi paterni’: Fetonte nel Rinascimento. Modelli antichi e fortuna del mito nell’arte dei secoli XVII–XVIII (Lugano, 2008), pp. 56-57, fig. 14.
Mattia Vinco in Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls, The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti, Milan, 2015, p. 464, fig. 70.1.

Paolo Paolini, Rome; sold American Art Galleries, New York, December 10–11, 1924, no. 94 (ill.), as Parentino, for $650 to George F. Harding, Jr. [buyer according to The George F. Harding Museum papers, Art Institute Archives; price according to American Art Sales 1924]; George F. Harding, Jr. (died 1939), Chicago, from 1924; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; offered for sale Sotheby’s, New York, December 2, 1976, no. 95 (ill.), withdrawn; transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned 1984.

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