Olympias, Mother of Alexander, Visited by Zeus in the Guise of a Serpent

Provenance

Peter Lely [stamp (Lugt 2092), recto, lower right, in black]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Aug. 6-7, 1914, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.

Olympias, Mother of Alexander, Visited by Zeus in the Guise of a Serpent

Andrea Boscoli

1595/99

Accession Number

81887

Medium

Pen and brown ink, with brush and grayish-green wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

Dimensions

11 × 16.7 cm (4 3/8 × 6 5/8 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection