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Study of the Head and Hands of an Old Woman Looking Up by Nicolas Bernard Lépicié — VisualArtsDB
Study of the Head and Hands of an Old Woman Looking Up
Nicolas Bernard Lépicié
1755–1784
Medium
Black chalk, with stumping, heightened with touches of white chalk, on ivory laid paper, prepared with a blue ground, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
21.4 × 18.6 cm (8 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Genre
chalk
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)
black chalk
chalk
chalk sticks
ground (material)
white chalk
prints and drawing
inorganic material
stumping
drawing techniques
paper (fiber product)
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