Peter Bruckmann, Florence

Franz Pallenberg, Rome

David Daniels, New York

J. Meier-Graefe, Hans von Marées. Sein Leben und Werk, M🧸unich and Leipzi🐻g, 1910, vol. II, p.506, cat. no.792

J. Meier-Graefe, Hans von Marées. Zeichnungen in drei Mappen; Museumsausgabe des Meier-Graefeschen Marées-Werkes, Munich, n.d., portfolio III, pl.792

Cambridge, Harvard University, Busch-Reisinger Museum, German Master Drawings of the Nineteenth Century, October – November 1972, cat. no.54, illustrated

New York, Shepherd Gallery, German Drawings and Watercolours 1780-1880. A Survey of Works on Paper by German-Speaking Artists, May – July 1981, cat. no.221, illustrated

Painted in 1883, the present work is part of a series of drawings on the subject of Chiron and Achilles and which the artist appears to have executed as a farewell gift to his pupil Viktor zur Helle before leaving Rome♛. It is possible that Marées identified himself in Chiron, the wise centaur who, according to Greek mythology, was the revered teacher to many notable heroes including Achilles.