Jean-Baptiste Deshays

The Education of the Virgin

c. 1762

Dating

Approximate

Held at

National Gallery of Art

Medium

red chalk with pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on laid paper, laid down on old mount

Dimensions

sheet: 39.4 × 29.7 cm (15 1/2 × 11 11/16 in.) mount: 47.3 × 37.2 cm (18 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.)

Collection no.

2018.67.1

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Baptiste Deshays. The Education of the Virgin. Jean-Baptiste Deshays; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Purchased as the Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.