Infant Oedipus Brought Home by Shepherd, by Pietro da Cortona, 1675/99
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Infant Oedipus Brought Home by Shepherd

Pietro da Cortona (or after Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596-1669))

1675/99

Medium
Red chalk with stumping, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto cream laid paper
Classification
Drawing and Watercolor
Dimensions
31.6 × 40.2 cm (12 1/2 × 15 7/8 in.)
Culture
Flanders
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
Credit line
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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