The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes, c. 1710

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Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

2018.175.1

Artists / Makers

Sir James Thornhill (artist) British, 1675 - 1734

Image Use

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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

Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker, Ltd., London

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.