Birth of Adonis

Prints and Drawings

1775/1785

Giovanni Battista Cipriani
Italian, 1727-1785

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Artist: Giovanni Battista Cipriani
Title: Birth of Adonis
Origin: Italy
Date: 1775–1785
Medium: Pen and black ink, and brush and black and gray wash, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 269 × 409 mm
Credit Line: Gift of the Ponte dell'Arte Society
Reference Number: 1974.25

William Mayor, A Brief Chronological Description of a Collection of Original Drawings and Sketches by the Old Masters of the different schools of Europe (London, 1875), no. 959.
Tancred Borenius, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by Sir Robert Mond (London, before 1938), no. 57 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Suzanne McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 146 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 1A9.

Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, “Italian Drawings 1780-1880,” March 16-May 11, 1980; also traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, June 11-September 7; and The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, November 8, 1980-January 4, 1981; and the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, March 9-April 11, 1981.

Dr. Edward Peart (died 1824), London and Butterwick [Lugt 891]. Sold, Christie’s, London, April 22, 1822, probably lot 9 or 11, to Molteno for £3.5s [a letter from Noel Annesley of Christie’s of November 13, 1981 in curatorial file]. William Mayor (died 1874), London [Lugt 2799]. Sir Robert Ludwig Mond (died 1938), London [Lugt Suppl. 2813a]. W. D. Austin; sold, Christie’s, London, April 7, 1970, lot 86, to Beer [sale catalogue price list]. Sold by Schaeffer Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1974.

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