The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes

c. 1710

Sir James Thornhill

Artist, British, 1675 - 1734

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over red chalk, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 18.6 × 25.2 cm (7 5/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.175.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's, Paris, 16 December 2005, no. 34, as Giuseppe Passeri). (sale, Drouot , 31 March 2016, no. 48); (Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd., London); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • The Spirit and Force of Art: Drawing in Britain 1600 - 1750. Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd., London, 2018, no. 48 (color).

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

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