Provenance
Artaria and Co., Vienna. Dr. Gottfried Eissler (1862–1924), Vienna, 1910; sold, Vienna, May 6–7, 1925, lot 150. Private collection, Switzerland. Eugene Victor Thaw, New York. Peter Jay Sharp; sold, Salamander Fine Arts, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Sept. 20, 2006 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World
1742/43
Accession Number
202256
Medium
Black chalk, with pen and black and brown ink and brush and various brown washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
40.5 × 27.2 cm (16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
