Group of Figures Around Table
Medium
Red chalk and brush and red chalk wash, with touches of pen and metallic gold paint, heightened with touches of white chalk, on cream laid paper prepared with a gray gouache ground, laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions
15.1 × 21.9 cm (6 × 8 5/8 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
81431
About the Artist
Sébastien Bourdon · 1616–1671
Sébastien Bourdon (1616–1671) was a French Baroque painter of remarkable versatility and restless ambition, whose career carried him from the workshops of Paris to the courts of Rome and Stockholm before he returned to France to become a founding member of one of Europe's most important artistic institutions. Born on 2 February 1616 in Montpellier into a Protestant family, Bourdon was apprenticed ...