Saint Francis of Assisi Adoring the Virgin and Child
Denys Calvaert
1607
- Medium
- Black chalk on blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 52.1 × 31.2 cm (20 9/16 × 12 5/16 in.)
- Genre
- chalk
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkMythologyprints and drawingsVirgin and child/Madonna and childprints and drawingdiamond shapesinorganic materialSaintsChristian subjectspaper (fiber product)
About
This monumental drawing shows Denys Calvaert’s nearly final conception for an altarpiece. The artist made a few intriguing changes before completing the painting. He replaced a child in the lower left of the drawing with an older saint figure, covered the Christ Child’s genitalia, and shifted Saint Francis’s head toward the center of the composition.
