Seated Woman with a Child on her Lap (Study for a Mystic Marriage of S

A black chalk drawing heightened with white on grey paper shows a veiled woman seated in soft, draped folds, holding a nude infant who looks down at a cloth in his hands. Two smaller head studies appear in the upper corners, one a child and one a woman in profile.

Look closer: A small head study of a child in profile sits in the upper left corner.

Artist

Etienne Parrocel

Date

18th century

Medium

Black chalk heightened with white

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3047 × 3854 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Selden Gift, 1979