The Holy Family with the Infant Baptist
Luca Cambiaso
1527–85
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash.
Dimensions
9 3/4 x 6 1/8in. (24.7 x 15.6cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Accession Number
1975.131.13
Tags
Holy FamilyMadonna and ChildSaint John the Baptist
About the Artist
Luca Cambiaso · 1527–1585
Luca Cambiaso (1527–1585) was an Italian painter and draftsman who dominated artistic life in Genoa during the second half of the sixteenth century and became one of the most innovative draftsmen of the Late Renaissance. Born in Moneglia near Genoa, he trained under his father, the painter Giovanni Cambiaso, and demonstrated precocious talent, reportedly completing his first public fresco commissi...