
Infant Oedipus Brought Home by Shepherd
1675 · Red chalk with stumping, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto cream laid paper
31.6 × 40.2 cm (12 1/2 × 15 7/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
Pietro da Cortona was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations.
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