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Head of a Peasant in Profile to the Left, c. mid–1630s. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper.
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper · 28.9 × 21.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Head of a Peasant in Profile to the Left
- Artist
- Guercino Italian, 1591-1666
- Date
- c. mid–1630s
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 28.9 × 21.1 cm (11 7/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1591–1666
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.