Image of the Virgin crowned by the Trinity / Sketches of flying figures with cartouches
Late XVII century. Grey-brown wash, Pencil ground, Pencil on laid paper.Not on display
The drawing depicts a frontal image of the Virgin with her hands joined and already crowned. She appears on a pedestal supported by cherubim and seraphim. Above her, the Trinity is represented with the Holy Spirit in the upper part of the composition, God the Father to the right and the Christ Child to the left. They carry a crown to be placed on top of her other one.
On the verso, there is a light sketch in black pencil for an allegorical composition with flying figures carrying cartouches. To the right, there is an incomplete text written in ink that is difficult to read.
According to Pérez Sánchez, the work was made in Madrid at the end of the century and is reminiscent of the style of Ruiz González. (Pérez Sánchez, A.E. in: Catalogue of Drawings. I. Spanish drawings of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, Museo del Prado, 1972, pp. 143-4.)
In the exhibition catalogue (2007), López Sánchez definitively considers it to be the work of the aforementioned artist.
