Daedalus and Icarus

Provenance

Count Bianconi [London 1972 auc. cat.]. Thomas Dimsdale (1758–1823) [his stamp (Lugt 2426) verso, lower left on mount, in black]. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) [his dry stamp (Lugt 2445) recto, lower left]; Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800–1857) [his stamp (Lugt Suppl. 2710b) recto, lower center, in black]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, December 5, 1972, lot 61, to Robert M. Light, Boston, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

Daedalus and Icarus

Giulio Romano

early 1530s

Accession Number

149019

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, over incising, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

34.3 × 26.4 cm (13 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection