Blenheim Palace Sarcophagus: Bacchanale with Lion's Head

Provenance

Frederick R. Aikman; sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Mar. 14, 1913, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right and verso, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.

Blenheim Palace Sarcophagus: Bacchanale with Lion's Head

Girolamo da Carpi

1549/53

Accession Number

112798

Medium

Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

19.4 × 28.5 cm (7 11/16 × 11 1/4 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection