Description:  Inscribed at lower right in pen and brown ink: Benedetto Castilione. Numbered: 1413 (Sparre and 16 (struck out)

This drawing served as the model for an unfinished etching of the subject. Both drawing and etching can be dated to the early 1650s, i.e. from the artist's early period in Mantua when his work was infused with baroque magnificence.

A copy of the drawing is in the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, a studio version of a variant composition is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York  [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 363]

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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione | Madonnan med barnet och änglar | Nationalmuseum