Mercury and Argus
Unknown
1570–1799
- Medium
- Brush and brown wash, over red and black chalk, with brush and red chalk wash, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 × 40.1 cm (10 7/8 × 15 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- Ink or chalk wash
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk stickswashink or chalk washopaque white pigmentwhite pigmentprints and drawinginorganic materialcolorantlead whitecoating (material)pigmentpaper (fiber product)red chalk
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