Venus Trying to Retain Adonis

pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)

Date

n.d.

Medium

Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), over red chalk, on buff laid paper, pieced

Dimensions

10.2 × 8.2 cm (4 1/16 × 3 1/4 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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