Chiron Teaching Achilles to Shoot with the Bow

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after 1810

Bertel Thorvaldsen
Danish, 1770-1844

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Bertel Thorvaldsen
Title: Chiron Teaching Achilles to Shoot with the Bow
Place: Denmark (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.: 1810–1844
Medium: Black chalk with white chalk on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower center, in black crayon: "A Thorvaldsen Fecit"
Dimensions: 37.2 × 43.3 cm (14 11/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Regenstein Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2019.924
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Probably given by the artist to a private collector, Rome. Dr. Bauer, Munich [according to Thomas Le Claire email correspondence 2019]; sold, Karl & Faber, Munich, June 4, 1997, lot 462, to Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg; offered to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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