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Sketches of Virgin and Child
Giulio Campi (Italian, c. 1500–1572)
1550–1600
- Medium
- black chalk; framing lines in traces of gold ink
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20.3 x 13.4 cm (8 x 5 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This sheet of sketches was drawn from imagination in preparation for a painting. Here, the artist explored five different ways to capture the motion of a restless child enfolded in its mother’s embrace. Blue-gray papers like this were made from indigo-dyed rags and typically used for drawings by 16th-century Venetian artists such as Giulio Campi to study the painterly effects of light and shade.
