Elderly Man Watching Putti Dissect an Eye
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 for transfer
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About this picture
Elderly Man Watching Putti Dissect an Eye 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 for transfer. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Elderly Man Watching Putti Dissect an Eye” (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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