Ceiling Design: Figures on Clouds with Cherubs, Pen and Wash Drawing

A pen and ink drawing with gray wash shows a partly draped woman reclining on a cloud bank, one arm extended, while cherubs drift above her and a putto blows a trumpet at lower left. A second figure peeks from the clouds at right. Soft wash shading and loose contour lines define the billowing clouds and sky.

Artist

Unknown artist

Date

n.d.

Medium

Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash and touches of blue and yellow wash, over red chalk, on cream laid paper, tipped on cream wove p

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 1342 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection