DETAILS
- Artist
- Abraham Bloemaert
- Date
- 1590
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of charcoal, heightened with opaque white watercolor (partially discolored), on buff laid paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- 14.7 × 19.5 cm (5 13/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
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