Caryatid, Study in Brown Wash

A female caryatid stands upright, balancing a basket of fruit or foliage on her head and holding a draped skirt at her side. She rests on a scrolled, leaf-like base, rendered in brush and brown wash with black chalk on tan laid paper.

Artist

Unknown Genoese

Date

17th century

Medium

Brush and brown wash, with black chalk (recto), and pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk (verso), both on

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

843 × 1860 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection