Putti Testing a Man's Perception of Depth
Sir Peter Paul Rubens · c. 1613 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white, on laid paper; indented with a stylus and chalked for transfer on the verso
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About this picture
Putti Testing a Man's Perception of Depth is a public-domain drawing by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, dated c. 1613. Pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white, on laid paper; indented with a stylus and chalked for transfer on the verso. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Putti Testing a Man's Perception of Depth” (c. 1613) comes out of Rubens’s Antwerp studio. The sketches are often his own hand. The large canvases were finished with assistants.
About the artist
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) ran a large Antwerp studio and painted altarpieces, hunts, portraits, and designs for tapestry. The sketches are often his own hand; the big canvases were finished with assistants.
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