The Education of the Virgin
Primary
Franz Anton Maulbertsch
(Langenargen am Bodensee, Germany, 1724–Vienna, Austria, 1796)
NationalityAustrian, Europe
Date1770
MediumPen and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 6 11/16 in. (28 × 17 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1232
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1232
On View
Not on viewThis is a compositional study for an altarpiece in the church of Saint Nicholas, now the cathedral, in Böhmisch Budweis, Germany. The altarpiece, executed in 1770-71, differs considerably in the secondary figures and detail. While the drawing retains the amplitude and the luminosity that are characteristic of Maulbertsch’s mature activity, the calmer order of the composition and the relatively simplified poses of the figures suggest an incipient classicism.
Exhibitions
Franz Anton Maulbertsch
1765
