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Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Christ Child

Girolamo da Carpi · c. 1535

Palette

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Artist

Girolamo da Carpi

Date

c. 1535

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on panel

Size

47 × 34 cm (18 9/16 × 13 7/16 in.); Framed: 69.6 × 57.2 × 5.8 cm (27 3/8 × 22 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.)

Place

Italy

Period

Renaissance · 16th century

Themes

Interiors · Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints

Main colour

Black · lightness 26, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by the Old Masters Society. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules