Antigone with the Body of Polynices

Provenance

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.

Antigone with the Body of Polynices

George Romney

1773–75

Accession Number

274615

Medium

Black chalk on cream laid paper

Dimensions

56.6 × 48.3 cm (22 1/4 × 19 in.)

Classification

prints and drawing

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Margaret Day Blake Endowment Fund