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Death of Adonis (?) by Hubert François Gravelot — VisualArtsDB

Death of Adonis (?)

Death of Adonis (?)

Hubert François Gravelot

1719–1773

Medium: Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk, squared in red chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 16.5 × 12 cm (6 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.)
Genre: chalk
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

Tags

squaring (transferring technique)drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk stickswhite chalkprints and drawinginorganic materialstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)red chalk

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