Venus Trying to Retain Adonis
Jacob de Wit
1600–1799
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), over red chalk, on buff laid paper, pieced
- Dimensions
- 10.2 × 8.2 cm (4 1/16 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)chalkchalk sticksinkpen and ink drawingswashopaque white pigmentwhite pigmentprints and drawinginorganic materialcolorantlead whitecoating (material)pigmentpaper (fiber product)red chalk
