Chalk drawing of a seated veiled woman with a child, an older man gesturing at right, and a large urn in the foreground, on blue-grey paper with a grid.

The Family of Saint John the Baptist

A woman in a veil sits beside a child on a low bed, with an older man in a robe gesturing from the right and a large vessel in the foreground. The composition is drawn in black and white chalk with stumped shading on blue-grey paper, with faint squaring grid visible across the sheet.

Artist: Nicolas Bernard Lépicié
Date: c. 1771
Medium: Black and white chalk, with stumping, on blue laid paper, squared with black chalk, laid down on cream laid card
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2772 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1776).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Worcester Sketch Fund

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