DETAILS
- Artist
- Federico Barocci
- Date
- 1560
- Medium
- black chalk with pastel (stumped in places), heightened with white chalk, squared with black chalk; framing lines in graphite
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Drawings
- Culture
- Italy
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen and Delia E. Holden Funds
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