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Design for an Altar Painting: Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Rosary from the Virgin and Child
Fedele Fischetti1760–89
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Drawn border in brown ink forms the arch at the top. The Saints kneel before a pedestal upon which the Virgin is seated with the Child in her lap. She gives a rosary to Dominic; Catherine receives hers from the Child. Angels and attributes accompany the Saints.
Details
- Title: Design for an Altar Painting: Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Rosary from the Virgin and Child
- Creator: Fedele Fischetti
- Creator Lifespan: 1734/1789
- Date Created: 1760–89
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Pen and brush and black ink, gray wash on off-white laid paper, ruled border in pen and black ink
- Signed: Inscribed in pen and brown ink at the lower left margin: Fedele e Fischetti
- Paper Support: off white laid paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right margin: Fedele Fischetti
- Exhibitions: Wellesley, Mass.- Wellesley College, "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," Sept. 12 - Nov. 22, 1970.New York, NY- Finch College Museum of Art, "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum" February 4 - March 20, 1970.
- Dimensions: 35.5 x 23.3 cm (14 x 9 3/16 in.)Image: 30 x16 cm (11 13/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Renato Roli and Giancarlo Sestieri, "I disegni italiani del settecento," Trevisio, Libreria Editrice Canova, 1981; p. 121, pl. 206.
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