# Christ on the Cross with the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Saint John

- By: Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596 - 1669)
- Date: about 1661
- Medium: Pen and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on light brown paper, squared in black chalk; the oval only reinforced in red chalk
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: Unframed: 40.3 × 26.5 cm (15 7/8 × 10 7/16 in.)
- Culture: Italian
- Credit line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Museum: [J. Paul Getty Museum](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103R6W)
- Rights: [CC0. Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content Program](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/96c12fa0e72f2dc7b3d111dc3b8db883.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)