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Roman Soldier by Paolo Farinati — VisualArtsDB

Roman Soldier

Roman Soldier

1543–1547

Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on tan laid paper, laid down on light-weight wove paper
Dimensions: 17.6 × 7.8 cm (6 15/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
Genre: ink with wash
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)black chalkpaintchalkinkgouachewashink with washbrown washprints and drawingcolored inkinorganic materialbrown inkwatercolorcoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paint

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