Family of Darius before Alexander

Provenance

Van Parijs [stamp (Lugt 2531), recto, lower left on mount, in black]. Baron Macartney, Parkhurst, Surrey; by descent to Macartney family, to 1854 [McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Frederick R. Aikman, England; sold, Puttick and Simpson, London, Mar. 14, 1913, lot 114, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, in black]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1943 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center of mount, in black].

Family of Darius before Alexander

Polidoro da Caravaggio

n.d.

Accession Number

114933

Medium

Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

18.1 × 22.2 cm (7 3/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

Classification

ink with wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection