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Artists: Cano, Alonso (20) | Herrera, Francisco de (9)

Period: 17th century (5013)

Type: ink (2963) | watercolour (2151)

Style: Spanish (151)

Subjects: Rosary, Our Lady of the  (1)

Keywords
crescents (shapes) (5) | glories (196) | infants (490) | moon (22) | religious art (2606) | rosaries (24) | saints (2404) | standing (551)

Madonna of the Rosary

17th century

Artists
Herrera, Francisco de    more

Formerly attributed to Cano, Alonso    more

Pen and brown ink and wash, laid down overall onto a fragment of an architectural drawing executed in pen and black ink and grey wash on paper.

height: 26.9 cm; width: 16.6 cm

Inscription
Inscription, in a darker ink, lower left, recto:
Ionso cano
Inscription, in a lighter ink, lower right, recto:
2 R
Inscription, in graphite, verso:
Lonso cano
Inscription, in graphite, verso, Witt inventory number:
2405

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.2405

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London