Blenheim Palace Sarcophagus: Bacchanale with Lion's Head

Prints and Drawings

1549/53

Girolamo Sellari, called Girolamo da Carpi
Italian, 1501-1556

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Girolamo da Carpi
Title: Blenheim Palace Sarcophagus: Bacchanale with Lion's Head
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.: 1549–1553
Medium: Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, upper right, in pen and brown ink: "Girolimo da Carpi"
Dimensions: 19.4 × 28.5 cm (7 11/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.670
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Marita Horster, “Eine unbekannte Renaissance-Zeichnung nach römischen Sarkophagen,” Archäologischer Anzeiger, Beiblatt zum Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 90 (1975), pp. 417ff.
Lubomir Konecny, “Eine Zeichnung Battista Francos im Schlesischen Museum zu Opava, Arte Veneta 31 (1977), pp. 53-59.
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. 117-18, no. 149 (ill.).

Frederick R. Aikman; sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Mar. 14, 1913, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right and verso, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.

McCullagh & Giles 149

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