Virgin and Child with Saints Peter and John the Baptist (recto); Saint John the Baptist (verso)n.d.
Pietro d' Asaro painted this (n.d.) It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago. More about this work
About this work
A work made of black chalk (recto), and black chalk and pen and black ink (verso), on ivory laid paper.
Description from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Pietro d' Asaro painted this (n.d.). It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
How it was made
- Chalk
- Natural black, red and white chalks. Used together on toned paper they could give the warmth of flesh with very little effort, and they were favourites for studies from life.
- Pen and ink
- Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
- Laid paper
- Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.
Pietro d' Asaro
Italian, 1597–1647
Renaissance
European art from about 1400 to 1600, when painters rediscovered perspective and the classical past.
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
- 1922.3493
- 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
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