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La Peri (Mythological Subject), 1865. Graphite, with brush and black ink, gray wash, and touches of gold metallic paint, heightened with traces of white gouache, on cream wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper.
Graphite, with brush and black ink, gray wash, and touches of gold metallic paint, heightened with traces of white gouache, on cream wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper · 35.7 × 25.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- La Peri (Mythological Subject)
- Artist
- Gustave Moreau French, 1826-1898
- Date
- 1865
- Medium
- Graphite, with brush and black ink, gray wash, and touches of gold metallic paint, heightened with traces of white gouache, on cream wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 35.7 × 25.5 cm (14 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Prints and Drawings Department Purchase Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1826–1898
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.