Innocence
1781. White chalk, Black chalk on blue paper.Not on display
This is a grided pencil sketch depicting an allegorical figure seated on a cloud and facing forwards. The figure wears a crown of flowers and caresses a little lamb. She is accompanied by child angels.
It is a preparatory drawing for the corresponding figure on a cupola pendentive in front of the Chapel of Santiago del Pilar in Zaragoza. It is intended for the Marian devotion Regina Virginum, painted in 1781. In addition to Innocence (D000542), Abstinence (D000538), Modesty (D000544) and Virginity (D000540) for the cupola interior’s pendentives, the Museo del Prado keeps two other drawings for the cupola Regina Virginum in the Chapel of Santiago: Head of Saint Barbara (D000407) and a Female Head (D000482).
The Museo Diocesano in Zaragoza keeps the sketch.
Arnáez, Rocío, Catálogo de Dibujos II. Dibujos españoles siglo XVIII. A-B, Madrid, 1975, p.147-148
