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Amphion and Zethus Delivering their Mother Antiope from the Fury of Dirce and Lycus
John FlaxmanLinkedCulture matchlcp-2b83b4e82941
- Date
- 1789
- Medium
- Pen and gray ink and brush and gray wash, over graphite, on gray laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 217215
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
A British sculptor and draughtsman who created figural designs for famed ceramicist Josiah Wedgwood, John Flaxman had a taste for the Neoclassical, which led him to Rome in 1787. While in the Eternal City, Flaxman produced this study for a nine-by-five-foot bas-relief using several references from ancient Roman sculpture. The drawing exhibits Flaxman’s signature elegance in figural outlines. However, Flaxman felt the project was inadequate to establish his reputation as a sculptor, so he abandoned it and later reused two of the figures from this drawing in a different context.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Private collection, New York, to 2012. Sold by Lowell Libson, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA, Nov. 2012; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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