A Shepherd (Study for “Il Voto”) (recto); Woman Holding a Baby (Study for “Il Voto”) (verso)c. 1883
Francesco Paolo Michetti painted this in about 1883, aged about 29. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago. More about this work
About this work
A work made of pastel, with wet brush (recto), and pastel (verso) on brown wove paper.
Description from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Francesco Paolo Michetti painted this in about 1883, aged about 29. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
How it was made
- Pastel
- Sticks of almost pure pigment with very little binder. The colour sits on the paper as powder: bright, matte and fragile.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 2020.205
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Type
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
