# Madonna and Saints, in Drawings of the 18th century

Sebastiano Conca drew this in about 1730, aged 50. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

From the museum's label:

> Madonna appears in a cloud to saints praying. The saints kneel in veneration. Madonna is looking up to heaven, where the dove of the Holy Ghost hovers.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1730
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, whitening, on paper
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1938-88-7192
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Sebastiano Conca](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/sebastiano-conca), Italian, 1680–1764

1 works in the collection.

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