Blue-gray wash drawing with white highlights: a nude young figure strides forward while a draped woman reaches from upper left and a bearded man reclines below.

Apollo and Daphne, blue wash drawing

A brush drawing in blue wash heightened with white on blue paper shows a nude young figure striding forward, a quiver strap across his back, while a draped woman reaches from the upper left. A bearded older man reclines in the lower left among rocks and shadowy wash.

Artist: Perino del Vaga
Date: 1575/99
Medium: Brush and blue wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on blue laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2192 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1599).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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