La Peri (Mythological Subject)

Gustave Moreau (French, 1826-1898)

1865

Medium
Graphite, with brush and black ink, gray wash, and touches of gold metallic paint, heightened with traces of white gouache, on cream wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Classification
Drawing and Watercolor
Dimensions
35.7 × 25.5 cm (14 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Culture
France
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
Credit line
Prints and Drawings Department Purchase Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago