Ruled border with arched top in pen and brown ink.
The sheet is made up of two sections joined together.
In this large, finished drawing, the grief-stricken Virgin laments the death of Christ, her heart pierced with swords symbolic of her Seven Sorrows. Diziani was a pupil of Giambattista Tiepolo's first teacher, Gregorio Lazzarini (1657-1730), and of Sebastiano Ricci, whose style as a draftsman this work reflects. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Jonzen, B., former owner.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Thirteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1963 & 1964. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1964, p. 102.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 141.