Celestial Venus (recto), pen and ink drawing

Pen and brown ink drawing of a female torso, headless and with truncated arms, its belly and breasts modeled with fine hatching. Drapery falls across the hips and over a rounded base below, on pale laid paper.

Artist

Circle of Marten van Heemskerck

Date

c. 1535

Medium

Pen and brown ink (recto), and pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash and black chalk (verso), on ivory laid paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 3742 px

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