Study for a Virgin and Child with saints (Madonna dell’Itria or Madonna di Loreto), ca. 1642 – 1645

Blatt: 136 x 82 mm

Physical Description: Pen in brown over traces of a preliminary drawing in graphite, red chalk, framed on all sides by a hand-drawn line in brown and black

Inventory Number: 4023

Object Number: 4023 Z

Status: On display, Department of Prints and Drawings Exhibition Gallery

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About the Work

This rapidly dashed-off depiction presumably marks the beginning of a pictorial clarification process. The artist has drawn only the mother and child with any precision and shaded them with hatching to give their bodies some solidity. All the other elements of the composition are far sketchier in execution. The suggestion of a façade at the right edge resembles a gabled house—perhaps the allusion is to the Holy House of Mary’s childhood, which is venerated in Loreto.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Study for a Virgin and Child with saints (Madonna dell’Itria or Madonna di Loreto)

Draughtsman

Simone Cantarini attributed

Period Produced

17th century

School

Baroque

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Pen in brown over traces of a preliminary drawing in graphite, red chalk, framed on all sides by a hand-drawn line in brown and black

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Technique

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