Madonna and Child with Saints
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over charcoal? on light tan paper. Fragments of framing outlines in brown ink
Dimensions
10-3/16 x 7-9/16 in. (25.8 x 19.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.386
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate drawing, *Madonna and Child with*, created by an anonymous Italian artist from the Roman-Bolog school in the 17th, captures a timeless devotional theme central to Catholic art. Rendered in pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over on light tan paper, measures a modest 10-3/16 x 7-9/16 inches. Faint fragments of framing outlines in brown suggest it may have been a preparatory study for a larger painting or altarpiece, a common practice among artists of the Baroque era. In the 17th century, amid the Counter-Reformation, such images of the Madonna tenderly holding the Christ...