Child Asleep on a Pillow
A watercolor over graphite drawing shows a fair-haired young child asleep on a white pillow, head resting on folded arms, with rosy cheeks and closed eyes. Soft gray-blue washes shape the pillow and bedding, and a handwritten date appears in the lower right corner.
- Artist
- Elizabeth Murray
- Date
- 1847
- Medium
- Watercolor over graphite (recto), and graphite (verso), on brown-gray wove paper
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 2442 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1847).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection