Youth Playing a Lyre to a Maiden by a Fountain

Provenance

Bequeathed by John S. Phillips, Philadelphia, to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1876; deaccessioned, 1985; acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1985 (Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, 1985-52-35720); deaccessioned, 2017. Sold by C. G. Boerner, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018

Youth Playing a Lyre to a Maiden by a Fountain

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, the elder

1803

Accession Number

247599

Medium

Etching and engraving in black on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 41.5 × 53.3 cm (16 3/8 × 21 in.); Sheet: 45.6 × 57.5 cm (18 × 22 11/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Albert H. Wolf, Henry M. Huxley, Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt, Harold Joachim Memorial, and Hannan endowment funds