Chicago Acquire Jean Baptiste Debret Drawing

February 26 2024

Image of Chicago Acquire Jean Baptiste Debret Drawing

Picture: Art Institute of Chicago

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

The Art Institute of Chicago's curator Emerson Bowyer has announced on his Instagram account of the acquisition of Jean Baptiste Debret drawing after Jacques Louis David's Hands of Horatius from The Oath of the Horatii. The work, acquired in 2023, was purchased with assistance from the Margaret Day Blake Endowment Fund.

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