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The Assumption of the Virgin
Creator
Francisco de Herrera the Younger (El Mozo)Spanish Artist · 1627–1685
All works by this person →Known for his wit and temper, painter, draftsman, architect, and stage designer Francisco de Herrera the Younger was born the son of an accomplished painter in Seville. After travels in Rome, he was in Madrid by 1650 and named in documents as a master painter. Four years later he received his first important painting commission, for the altarpiece of a convent church in Madrid. There he studied th
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- about 1648–1653
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk
- Culture
- Spanish
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 2e660480-cee1-481f-9ae8-5a07e1900de8
From the Getty Museum record
Through lively penwork, de Herrera imparted a sense of movement to the substantial figure of the Virgin and the stable, classical pyramid form of the group. The artist's fertile imagination worked quickly; after doing some sketching with black chalk, he applied free-flowing, crisscrossing, tangled threads of ink ranging from the dark squiggles of the Virgin's drapery to the light tracings on the angels' robes below. The fluent washes add drama to the composition.
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