Two Standing Prisoners in a Niche

Bernardino Campi, c. 1549

A work made of pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card. · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Bernardino Campi ¹
Date: c. 1549 ¹
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card ¹
Original: 1,845 × 3,000 px ¹
License: Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago)
Credit: Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Object record, Art Institute of Chicago

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