Odysseus, at the Doors of Hades, Meets the Shades of Tiresias and Anticlea

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1785

Johann Heinrich Lips
Swiss, 1758–1817

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Johann Heinrich Lips
Title: Odysseus, at the Doors of Hades, Meets the Shades of Tiresias and Anticlea
Place: Switzerland (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.: 1785
Medium: Pen and brown ink and black ink wash, with brown ink wash, on blued-white laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower left, in pen and black ink: "Joh. H. Lips inv: e fec: Roma 1785"; illegible inscription, verso of mount, center right, in graphite
Dimensions: 45.4 × 67 cm (17 7/8 × 26 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2023.3178
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Rome, Paolo Antonacci, Aspetti dell’arte neoclassica a Roma, Sept. 26–Oct. 4, 2009, pp. 14–19, cat. 3 (ill.).

Private collection, Switzerland; sold anonymously, Kunst & Spiegel AG, Zurich, Oct. 26–28, 1932, lot 933 (as Mythologische Szene), to a Swiss art dealer. Mr. Zachmann; by descent to his son, Dr. Nico Zachmann, Basel and Rome; sold to Paolo Antonacci, Rome, 2009. Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg, 2009 [all provenance is according to Thomas Le Claire, email dated June 20, 2023]. Olivier Aaron (1947–2018), Paris; sold, Rémy Le Fur & Associés, Paris, Oct. 8, 2019, lot 89. Talabardon & Gauthier, Paris; sold Ader, Paris, Mar. 23, 2023, lot 208, to Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

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