Madonna and Saints, pen and wash drawing

A pen and brown ink drawing with brush wash and white highlights shows the Virgin Mary seated on clouds beneath a radiant light at the top. Below, a bearded man in a robe and a kneeling woman in drapery, with two more kneeling figures, look upward in a stone-stepped setting.

Artist

Sebastiano Conca

Date

ca. 1730

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, whitening, on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

2343 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum