The blessed Toribius Alfonso de Mongrovejo administers the sacrament of confirmation to several children, 1655 – 1656

Blatt: 265 x 210 mm

Physical Description: Red chalks, washed, framed on all sides with a hand-drawn line in brown and in red chalk

Inventory Number: 433

Object Number: 433 Z

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

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About the Work

It was thanks to an engraving that this depiction came to be associated with Turibius, the Archibishop of Lima. The print identifies Carlo Maratti as the designer of the scene, thus confirming the drawing’s attribution. Highly esteemed in South America, Archibishop Turibius was hardly known in Europe. Maratti therefore drew on commonly known motifs for his portrayal.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: The blessed Toribius Alfonso de Mongrovejo administers the sacrament of confirmation to several children

Draughtsman

Carlo Maratti attributed

Period Produced

17th century

School

Baroque

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Red chalks, washed, framed on all sides with a hand-drawn line in brown and in red chalk

Material

Technique

red chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

Italian

Production Reason

Pictorial drawing

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