Red and black chalk drawing of a haloed flying figure with a staff over a faint landscape, with a robed figure gesturing at lower right and handwriting along the top.

The Dream of Cecco Bravo

Loose sketch in black and red chalk on tan paper shows a haloed figure in a red cloak and grey drapery flying diagonally downward across a landscape while holding a long staff. At lower right a robed standing figure gestures toward it, and a small figure on a distant bank raises an arm.

Artist: Cecco Bravo
Date: c. 1630-1660
Medium: Black and red chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1359 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1665).
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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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