Antigone with the Body of Polynices

Prints and Drawings

1773–75

George Romney
English, 1734-1802

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: George Romney
Title: Antigone with the Body of Polynices
Place: United Kingdom (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.: 1773–1775
Medium: Black chalk on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed upper center, in graphite: “George Romney / (1734–1802) / Antigone and Polynices / 23" x 19"”
Dimensions: 56.6 × 48.3 cm (22 1/4 × 19 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2024.717

London, Morton Morris & Company, Drawings by George Romney, Oct. 21–Nov. 7, 1980, n.p., cat. 48 (ill.).

Morton Morris & Company, London, by 1980 [London 1980]; sold to Christopher Powney, Nov. 1980 [according to annotated exhibition catalogue, copy in curatorial file; the work was offered at Sotheby’s, London, July 10, 1995, lot 101, but was bought in]; sold to a private collection, United Kingdom [according to Karen Taylor email dated July 5, 2024, copy in curatorial file]; sold through Karen Taylor Fine Art, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024.

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