# Pope Receiving Visitor

**Belisario Corenzio** (Italian)  
1590–1646  
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on cream laid paper, lined  
23.1 x 32.7 cm (9 1/8 x 12 7/8 in.)

Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1938-88-7079. [The museum's record](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/68020).

## About this work

Interior, striped wall, framed picture hanging; a pope, seated on a low pedestal under a rectangular canopy, speaks to a kneeling visitor. The visitor is entreating him with a document, while two cardinals flanking the pope and two courtiers at some distance to the right look on. Graphite marks of initial drawing, including sketched head of third courtier, remain throughout.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

Belisario Corenzio drew this in 1590–1646. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

### How it was made

- **Graphite.** Pencil. Graphite has been used for drawing since the 1500s; in 1795 Nicolas-Jacques Conté mixed it with clay, so its hardness could be graded.
- **Pen and ink.** Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
- **Laid paper.** Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.

### [Belisario Corenzio](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/belisario-corenzio)

Italian

## Facts

- Type: Drawing
- Real size: about 9 × 13 in (23 × 33 cm). The 11 × 14 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 16th century
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/1737.jpg?dl=1
- Image: https://img.ochreeditions.com/a/1737/1920.jpg
- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38; 12 × 16 in $42; 16 × 20 in $56
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/pope-receiving-visitor-si-chndm-1938-88-7079).