Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto)
Medium
pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash
Dimensions
sheet: 20.5 × 23.4 cm · secondary support: 22 × 28.2 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Robert Hays Gries
Accession Number
1939.670.a
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About this artwork
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...