The Infant Saint John the Baptist with the Infant Christ in the Wilderness (recto); Fragment of Architectural Design with Engaged Corinthian Columns (verso)

Anonymous, Spanish, 17th century|Pedro Duque Cornejo

ca. 1700–50 · Pen and light brown ink, selectively reinforced with dark brown ink, over black chalk underdrawing. Border lines in the same brown ink (recto). Fragment of architectural design with engaged Corinthian columns. Pen and light brown ink over ruling in black chalk (verso). On off-white paper · Drawings and Prints

For the attribution of this drawing to the sculptor Pedro Duque Cornejo, see M. García Luque, 'Dibujos de Duque Cornejo en el Álbum Jaffe (I): la colección del Metropolitan Museum of Art’, Philiostrato. Revista de Historia y Arte, no. 3, 2018, cat.no. 22.

Artist

Anonymous, Spanish, 17th century|Pedro Duque Cornejo

Date

ca. 1700–50

Medium

Pen and light brown ink, selectively reinforced with dark brown ink, over black chalk underdrawing. Border lines in the same brown ink (recto). Fragment of architectural design with engaged Corinthian columns. Pen and light brown ink over ruling in black chalk (verso). On off-white paper

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Jaffe, 1956