Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Upper row, at left: The Virgin sits on a bench, the Child stands at left, beside her. Beside, at left, a pillar. In the background is a cupola supported by a colonnade. At right: the Virgin sits upon a throne with a canopy, in front of which two putti stand on either side. She carries the Child in her lap. Below: The Virgin sits upon a throne, with the Child standing beside her, at left. Beside her, at left, a kneeling and a standing woman, at right the figure of a young woman, standing in front of two broken columns, seen frontally, the head turned toward right. Framing line. B: the other side. Above, at right: three-quarter figure of a young woman, sitting at a table upon which she places her right arm, raising her left hand which carries a letter. Her Skirt is brown, the blouse green, a blue shawl is visible on the back of the chair, where her left forearm rests.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863
- Date
- 1820-1850
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Graphite, pen and ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.7 × 19.8 cm (10 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
