A Seated Saint Reading from a Book

Francesco Botticini (Francesco di Giovanni)

Date

late 15th century

Type

Drawing

Medium

Brush and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized); horizontal lines in black chalk (?); pricked for transfer; outlines reinforced in brown ink, perhaps in the 15th or early 16th century.

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

1975.1.409

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975