DETAILS
- Artist
- Nicolaes Berchem
- Date
- 1601
- Medium
- Etching in black ink on ivory laid paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- Plate: 10.1 × 11 cm (4 × 4 3/8 in.); Sheet: 12.4 × 13.3 cm (4 15/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- Holland
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer
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