Chiron Teaching Achilles to Shoot with the Bow

Provenance

Probably given by the artist to a private collector, Rome. Dr. Bauer, Munich [according to Thomas Le Claire email correspondence 2019]; sold, Karl & Faber, Munich, June 4, 1997, lot 462, to Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg; offered to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

Chiron Teaching Achilles to Shoot with the Bow

Bertel Thorvaldsen

after 1810

Accession Number

250678

Medium

Black chalk with white chalk on tan wove paper

Dimensions

37.2 × 43.3 cm (14 11/16 × 17 1/16 in.)

Classification

drawings (visual works)

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Regenstein Endowment Fund