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Late in his career Veronese and his workshop painted a number of calm scenes of the Holy Family resting in the countryside during the flight into Egypt. On this sheet he tried out eight versions of the seated Virgin and Child in two rows, adding the young John the Baptist, Joseph or a donkey to some. Unusually, the sketches prepared finished drawings in light and shade, now in London, Berlin and Cambridge, Massachusetts, rather than paintings.
pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash · Sheet: 20.5 x 23.4 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · High Renaissance and Mannerism
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- Museum title
- Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto)
- Artist
- Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588)
- Date
- c. 1580
- Medium
- pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20.5 x 23.4 cm (8 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.); Secondary Support: 22 x 28.2 cm (8 11/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Hays Gries
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1528–1588
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.