Cartoon Fragment for Adolescent Angel Leaning on a Tablet or Closed Book

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Artist: Marcantonio Franceschini (Italian, Bologna 1648–1729 Bologna)
Date: ca. 1690–95
Medium: Brush with brown wash and gouache, over traces of granular charcoal underdrawing, on six glued sheets of paper; lined with canvas
Dimensions: 23 3/8 x 34 5/8in. (59.4 x 87.9cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession no.: 49.20.194

Study of a Young Woman Playing a Tambourine, and Studies of an Arm, Hands, and Feet (Studies for "Miriam Leading the Chorus of Women Who Give Thanks for the Routing of Pharoah"
Marcantonio Franceschini
c. 1711 · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00011688
The Last Communion of Saint Mary of Egypt
Marcantonio Franceschini
1680 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00015963
Saint Luke Holding a Painting of the Virgin and Child
Marcantonio Franceschini
1648–1729 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019914
Saint Lawrence Standing and Holding the Grill, Instrument of His Martyrdom
Marcantonio Franceschini
ca. 1715 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019925

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.