Drawing of 71 x 54 cm made with pencil, blending stumps and highlights in white lead on cardboard, the latter supported on a second thicker cardboard, of blue color and bearing pen annotations of the painter, which by virtue of its larger size also acts as a passepartout; all contained in a beautiful contemporary frame, decorated with friezes in gilded pastille on the corners and white lacquer on the bands.
This is the preparatory study for the Madonna and Child painted in oil on canvas by Luigi Trécourt from Bergamo around 1860, and kept at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo (a composition inspired by that of G.B. Salvi, known as Sassoferrato, now at the Galleria Borghese in Rome).
