Group of Standing Female Saints (the Holy Virgins)

Group of Standing Female Saints (the Holy Virgins) by Anonymous, Italian, 16th to 17th century

Medium

Pen and brown ink outlines, over red chalk underdrawing, and rendering of shadows in soft grayish black chalk, on light brown paper; framing outlines in pen and dark brown ink

Dimensions

8-5/16 x 8-1/16 in. (21.1 x 20.5 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880

Accession Number

80.3.175

Tags

WomenSaints

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