# Sketches of Virgin and Child

- By: Giulio Campi (Italian, c. 1500–1572)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.1002)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1924.1002/1924.1002_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.