Is it really because he receives Christian revelation in an intellectual way, as official exegesis indicates? One of Delacroix's sketches might give a clue: it's the only one in which a bearded man also turns his back on the Virgin, as if he thinks he has his head in his hands. Originally titled Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows (Fig. 7), Robaut believed that it was not a Lady of the Seven Sorrows, but a Consolatrix afflictorum. But couldn't it be an allegorical version of the Seven Sorrows? During the 19th century, the lost painting was often called Our Lady of Sorrows, as Villot recounts