Christ Appearing to the Virgin
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Domenico Fetti
(Rome (?), Italy, circa 1588/1589–Venice, Italy, 1623)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Datecirca 1620-1621
MediumRed chalk on cream antique laid paper mounted on paper
DimensionsSheet: 15 3/16 × 12 5/8 in. (38.6 × 32.1 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1112
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1112
On View
Not on viewBarely discernible through a web of lines, Mary, in a pose typical of the Annunciation, kneels in the lower left corner and turns toward a vision of her rising son. At right Adam bears the true cross while onlookers from the Old Testament—including David with his harp and a horned Moses—crowd the sides of the drawing.
Ideal for studies, red chalk allows artists to draw quickly. In this devotional drawing, Domenico Fetti deftly knits figures from the Old and New Testament together with rippling lines and scribbles.
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