Studies for the Assumption of the Virgin
Juan Carreño de Miranda · Spanish
Date: 1657–60
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of black chalk on paper washed yellow brown
Dimensions: 9-3/8 x 7 in. (23.8 x 17.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Themes: Assumption of the Virgin
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Date range
1657 – 1660
Largest dimension
17.8 cm
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