Rape of Persephone

Artist Ubaldo Gandolfi (Italian, 1728 - 1781)

Date18th century

MediumPen, brown ink, and gray wash over black chalk on paper

DimensionsOverall: 6 1/4 × 8 9/16 inches (15.88 × 21.75 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy

Object number81-30/29

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 50, as The Rape of Persephone.

The Gods of High Olympus and a Hero, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-March 20, 1983, no. 18, as Rape of Persephone.

Provenance

Bequeathed by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 32, as The Rape of Persephone.

The Gods of High Olympus and a Hero, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 10, 18, (repro.), as Rape of Persephone.

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