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Magician Making a Prediction to an Emperor (recto); Male Nude Carrying a Load (verso)

A work made of brush and brown ink and wash, heightened with  white gouache (recto), and black chalk, with traces of white chalk (verso), on blue laid paper.
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  • A work made of brush and brown ink and wash, heightened with  white gouache (recto), and black chalk, with traces of white chalk (verso), on blue laid paper.

Date:

17th century

Artist:

Attributed to Luca Giordano (Italian, 1632-1705)
or Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Italian, 1610-1662)
or Polidoro da Caravaggio (Italian, c. 1499-c. 1543)
or a follower of Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596-1669)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Unknown Italian

Title

Magician Making a Prediction to an Emperor (recto); Male Nude Carrying a Load (verso)

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1600–1699

Medium

Brush and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache (recto), and black chalk, with traces of white chalk (verso), on blue laid paper

Dimensions

37 × 27 cm (14 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Charles Deering Collection

Reference Number

1927.7669

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