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The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints
Antonio di Dominicica. 1759
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Sitting in clouds, surrounded by angels, St. Joseph sits beside the Virgin, bearing a standard. On the verso is a study, roughly sketched in black crayon with white gouache, of the upper part of a man with outstretched arms shown in profile, turned toward right. Written in ink, across his shoulder: "Antonio Dominici f. 4 Dicembre 1759."
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Details
- Title: The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints
- Creator: Antonio di Dominici
- Creator Lifespan: 1725/1735
- Date Created: ca. 1759
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, white gouache on blue-grey paper (faded)
- Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli
- Markings: Collector's mark on verso, lower left corner: Lugt, 1860c, MB.
- Inscribed: Written in ink on verso: Antonio Domenici f. 4 Dicembre 1759; in ink, lower right corner: no.174/(something erased) sc 2.
- Exhibitions: Wellesley, Mass.- Wellesley College. "The Two Sicilies: Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum", Sept. 12 - Nov. 22, 1970.New York, NY- Finch Collection Museum of Art. "The Two Sicilies: Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum", Feb. 4 - March 20, 1970.
- Dimensions: 26.5 x 41.3 cm (10 7/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
- Bibliography: "The Two Sicilies: Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum", Finch College Museum of Art, exh. catalogue, plate 58, p. 31.
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