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Sleeping Christ Child Holding Cross by Carlo Cignani — VisualArtsDB

Sleeping Christ Child Holding Cross

Sleeping Christ Child Holding Cross

1648–1719

Medium: Black chalk, with stumping, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove board
Dimensions: 13 × 13.9 cm (5 1/8 × 5 1/2 in.)
Genre: chalk
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk sticksprints and drawinginorganic materialstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)

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