Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Sir Joshua Reynolds
c. 1752
Medium
Black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
14.5 × 18.9 cm (5 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
81598
About the Artist
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1723–1792
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) was a British painter who became the dominant figure in eighteenth-century British art and the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts. Born in Plympton, Devon, he studied under the portrait painter Thomas Hudson in London, and a transformative visit to Italy (1749–52) — where he studied the Old Masters, particularly the Venetian colorists and Michelangelo — sh...