Allegory of Drawing, by Carlo Maratti, 1700s
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Allegory of Drawing

Carlo Maratti (after Carlo Maratti (Italian, 1625-1713))

1700s

Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), with traces of graphite, on tan laid paper
Classification
Drawing and Watercolor
Dimensions
40.1 × 31.5 cm (15 13/16 × 12 7/16 in.)
Culture
Italy
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
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

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