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The Sacrifice of Pelias to Neptune, 1584. Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black chalk.
Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black chalk · 42.4 × 56.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Sacrifice of Pelias to Neptune
- Artist
- Agostino Carracci Italian, 1557–1602
- Date
- 1584
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black chalk
- Dimensions
- 42.4 × 56.6 cm (16 3/4 × 22 5/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Jean and Steven Goldman
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1557–1602
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.