Putti Carrying the Cross (recto); Studies of a Hand (verso)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598-1680)

1672/75

Medium
Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping (recto); black chalk (verso) on ivory laid paper
Classification
Drawing and Watercolor
Dimensions
27.5 × 20.2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 in.)
Culture
Italy
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
Credit line
Margaret Day Blake Endowment and Harold Joachim Memorial Endowment Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago