Birth of Adonis

Provenance

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.

Birth of Adonis

Giovanni Battista Cipriani

1775/1785

Accession Number

46424

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

26.9 × 40.9 cm (10 5/8 × 16 1/8 in.)

Classification

ink or chalk wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of the Ponte dell'Arte Society