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

- By: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598-1680)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Margaret Day Blake Endowment and Harold Joachim Memorial Endowment Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/122042)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/ebb340d1-3efa-c013-9882-af53d9280d6e/full/!1650,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)