Putti Carrying the Cross (recto); Studies of a Hand (verso)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Title

Putti Carrying the Cross (recto); Studies of a Hand (verso)

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1672–1675

Medium

Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping (recto); black chalk (verso) on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

27.5 × 20.2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

Margaret Day Blake Endowment and Harold Joachim Memorial Endowment Fund

Reference Number

1993.173

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