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Saint Margaret of Cortona Kneeling Offering a Book to the Christ Child
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineDe heilige Margaretha van Cortona biedt knielend het Christuskind een boek aan. c. 1640. Pietro da Cortona. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
