The Virgin and Infant Jesus with Saints
c. 1600
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over red chalk
Dimensions
overall: 13.6 x 11.1 cm (5 3/8 x 4 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Julius S. Held Collection
Accession Number
1985.1.55
Art Historical Context
### The Virgin and Infant Jesus Saints Step into the intimate world of Hans Rottenham's *The Virgin and Infant Jesus Saints* (c. 1600), a delicate drawing that captures the tender spirituality of early Baroque devotion. Created at the turn of the 17th century, this small-scale work (just 13.6 x 11.1 cm) Rottenhammer's mastery as a German painter who trained in Italy and later worked in Munich. Known for miniature cabinet paintings on copper, often in collaboration with Flemish artists like Jan Brueghel the Elder, Rottenhammer blended Mannerist elegance with emerging Baroque drama in religious...