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St Margaret of Cortona Kneeling before the Christ Child and Offering Him a Book
Also titled De heilige Margaretha van Cortona biedt knielend het Christuskind een boek aan
Pietro da Cortona (Cortona, 1596–1669)
c. 1640
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- design
- Dimensions
- height 409 mm x width 305 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The fact that St Margaret also came from Cortona, the artist’s birthplace, may have been the reason why Pietro da Cortona dedicated this sheet to her. Whether the drawing served as a preliminary study for an altarpiece is not known. However, it was later used for a print. The artist was dissatisfied with the original drawing of Margaret’s cape: he pasted a piece of paper over it with an improved version.
