Venus Trying to Retain Adonis
Jacob de Wit
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), over red chalk, on buff laid paper, pieced
Dimensions
10.2 × 8.2 cm (4 1/16 × 3 1/4 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
3604
About the Artist
Jacob de Wit · 1695–1754
Comment on works: Religious; Allegory; Bas-relief