# The Virgin and Saint Joseph with Saint Anthony of Padua Seated in the Heavens Interceding for the Souls in Purgatory, While an Angel Pours Fluid from a Vase onto the Crowd Below (recto and verso)

**Pietro Antonio di Pietri** (Italian, 1663–1716)  
1690/1710  
Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, and white opaque watercolor (recto) and pen and brown-black ink (verso) on laid paper  
36.3 × 22.3 cm (14 5/16 × 8 13/16 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.884. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/248311).

## About this work

Pietro Antonio di Pietri painted this in 1690/1710, aged about 27. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, and white opaque watercolor (recto) and pen and brown-black ink (verso) on laid paper.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Opaque watercolour.** Watercolour made opaque with white or chalk and laid in flat, even layers. Persian and Indian painters ground their colours from minerals, applied them with the finest brushes and burnished the finished page.
- **Watercolour.** Pigment in gum arabic, thinned with water and laid in transparent washes. Nothing white is painted: the light is the paper showing through.
- **Pen and ink.** Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.

### [Pietro Antonio di Pietri](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/pietro-antonio-di-pietri)

Italian, 1663–1716

## Facts

- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Culture: Italy
- The artist was about 27
- Real size: about 14 × 8½ in (36 × 22 cm). The 11 × 14 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 17th century
- Movement: [Baroque](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/baroque)
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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