Three Putti Holding Cross Before Two Male Saints

Alonso Cano

1601–67

Three Putti Holding Cross Before Two Male Saints by Alonso Cano

Medium

Pen and medium brown ink over traces of black chalk underdrawing on cream paper. Lightly foxed. Composition outlined with pen and medium brown ink. Lined with a strip of paper showing at bottom

Dimensions

6 x 8 in. (15.2 x 20.3 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971

Accession Number

1975.131.204

Tags

PuttiSaints

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