Study of the Infant Jesus, Holding a Veil, Italian School, 17th century

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Sweet tondo on blue paper.
Study of the Infant Jesus, Holding a Veil, Italian School, 17th century.

Italian School, 17th century

Study of the Infant Jesus, Holding a Veil

Black chalk, heightened with white on blue-grey paper.

Inscribed Andrea Sacchi and other illegible inscriptions on the verso.

Diameter 201 mm – 7 15/16 in.

This refined drawing is probably a preparatory study for the Infant Jesus playing with the Virgin’s veil, which is not such an usual subject. The combination of a religious subject with delicate draughtsmanship and blue paper are evocative of many drawings by Giovanni Battista Salvi, called Sassoferrato.