The Dead Christ (recto); Child's Head (verso)

Prints and Drawings

1646 (recto); 18th century (verso)

Recto by Charles Le Brun (French, 1619-1690)
Verso by Unknown Artist (French, 18th century)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Charles Le Brun
Title: The Dead Christ (recto); Child's Head (verso)
Place: France (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.: 1646–1799
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, and traces of red chalk, heightened with lead white (discolored), on blue laid paper, tipped on cream laid paper (recto), and red chalk transfer on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 22.8 × 35.1 cm (9 × 13 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1962.375
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Harold Joachim, French Drawings of the 16th and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1977), p. 18, no. 1D1 (recto).
“Charles le Brun avant 1646: Contribution aux Problemes de sa Formation et de ses Oeuvres de Jeunesse,” Bulletin de la Societe de l’Histoire de l’Art Francais (1977) p. 99 (ill.) (recto).

New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 39 (recto).

Germain Seligman, New York [stamp]; sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.

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