River God (recto); Sketches of Two Male Heads (verso)
Medium
Pen and brown ink over red chalk (recto) and brush and black ink (verso) on ivory laid paper, edge mounted on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
15.4 × 25.6 cm (6 1/8 × 10 1/8 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112237
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 ...