Two Kneeling and Two Standing Figures

Provenance

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Artist: Nicola Maria Rossi (Italian, Naples (?) 1690–1758 Naples)
Date: 1690–1758
Medium: Pen, brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk. Scribbled figure studies in pen and black chalk on verso, including a young man and a bishop in a mitre
Dimensions: 6-5/8 x 9-3/8 in. (16.8 x 23.8 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917
Accession no.: 17.236.26

The Virgin Nursing the Christ Child, in a Glory of Angels (recto); Studies for seated figures of Christ and God the Father in red chalk (verso)
Nicola Maria Rossi
1690–1758 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020613

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