A Seated Saint Reading from a Book
Object type: Drawing
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Artist: Alesso Baldovinetti|Francesco Botticini (Francesco di Giovanni)
Artist bio: Italian, Florence 1425–1499 Florence|Italian, Florentine, ca. 1446–1497
Artist role: Former Attribution|Artist
Artist nationality: Italian|Italian
Date: late 15th century
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.
Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.  (26.1 x 16.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession year: 1975
Tags: Books|Reading|Saints