Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto)
c. 1580
- Medium
- pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash
- Dimensions
- 20.5 × 23.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-191520
In the last decades of his career, Paolo Veronese and his workshop produced a number of idyllic visions of the Holy Family in repose in the countryside during their flight into Egypt. This crowded sheet of loose, lively sketches was recently proposed to have inaugurated an intensive period of interest in this subject that began around 1570. The sheet shows two horizontal rows with eight versions of the seated Virgin holding the Christ Child, in some of the sketches accompanied by the infant John the Baptist or Joseph, and in one by a donkey. The sheet presents an unusual case of being prepara…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries, 1939.670.a
Registry history
- c. 1580 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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