# Madonna and Saints, in Drawings

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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