Putti Carrying the Cross (recto); Studies of a Hand (verso)

Provenance

Dr. Alfredo Viggiano (died 1948), Venice [Lugt 191a]. Sold, Christie's, London, December 19, 1991, lot 139. Sold by Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd., London, to the Art Institute, 1993.

Putti Carrying the Cross (recto); Studies of a Hand (verso)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

1672/75

Accession Number

122042

Medium

Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping (recto); black chalk (verso) on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

27.5 × 20.2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Margaret Day Blake Endowment and Harold Joachim Memorial Endowment Fund