Soldiers Discovering the Body of Holofernes

pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)

Date

c. 1550

Medium

Pen and black ink and brush and black wash, over lilac wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

Dimensions

18.2 × 28 cm (7 3/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Celia and David Hilliard and Harold Joachim Memorial Endowments

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