Rape of Proserpina

Unknown Artist Italian, mid-16th century →

ink with washdrawings (visual works)

Date

1550/59

Medium

Pen and black ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on lunette-shaped cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash, squared in graphite, laid down on cream laid card

Dimensions

37.2 × 25 cm (14 11/16 × 9 7/8 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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