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The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia (Cartoon for a Fresco)

Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) · 1581–1641

Maximum print size

Frame
40.6 × 50.8 cm · 16.0 × 20.0 in
Mat opening
29.2 × 30.7 cm · 11.5 × 12.1 in
Mat border, sides
5.8 cm · 2.3 in
Mat border, top and bottom
10.2 cm · 4.0 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date
1612–14
Medium
Charcoal highlighted with white chalk on fourteen sheets of blue laid paper, two of the sheets cut from elsewhere on the original cartoon and reset at the left and right margins to make up the oval
Type
Drawings
Size
172.2 × 151.3 cm · 67.8 × 59.6 in
Orientation
square
Subjects
Men, Saints, Women
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

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