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Study for the Christ Child in the Madonna of S. Simone (recto); Study of a Landscape (verso), c. 1567. Black chalk, with stumping (recto), and black chalk, with touches of red chalk (verso), on cream laid paper.
Black chalk, with stumping (recto), and black chalk, with touches of red chalk (verso), on cream laid paper · 23.1 × 15.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Study for the Christ Child in the Madonna of S. Simone (recto); Study of a Landscape (verso)
- Artist
- Federico Barocci Italian, 1528–1612
- Date
- c. 1567
- Medium
- Black chalk, with stumping (recto), and black chalk, with touches of red chalk (verso), on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 23.1 × 15.9 cm (9 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.