Study for the vignette-frontispiece of Lucretius's "De la nature des choses", Book I

Gravelot (1699-1773)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1768
Height:
13.7 cm  (5 3/8 in.)
Width:
8.7 cm  (3 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
Pen and black ink, with traces of black chalk, on gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter mounted on cream laid paper.

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1962.110.1]

Description

Orpheus playing a lyre.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

1968