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Source Description
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.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
105919
label
Sketches of Virgin and Child
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obj
dtoType
drawing
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
105919
contentType
drawing
title
Sketches of Virgin and Child
description
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.
date
1550–1600
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79892023
creators
26123
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 20.3 x 13.4 cm (8 x 5 1/4 in.)
cul
Italy, 16th century
accession
1924.1002
Source extras
tec
black chalk; framing lines in traces of gold ink
tombstone
Sketches of Virgin and Child, 1550–1600. Giulio Campi (Italian, c. 1500–1572). Black chalk; framing lines in traces of gold ink; sheet: 20.3 x 13.4 cm (8 x 5 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1924.1002
supportMaterials
description
blue laid paper
collection
DR - Italian
inscriptions
inscription
Parmigiano
inscription_remark
brown ink
sortorder
1
inscription
Parmigeano
inscription_remark
pencil
sortorder
2
inscription
L.74
g
inscription_remark
brown ink
sortorder
3
inscription
A3543
inscription_remark
pencil
sortorder
4
inscription
13
inscription_remark
pencil
sortorder
5
inscription
F. C. 2489
sortorder
6
didYouKnow
Sixteenth-century artists from the northern provinces of Italy like Giulio Campi often focused on painterly effects such as light and shadow, rather than line, in their drawings.
citations
citation
Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. <em>The Draftsman’s Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles</em>. Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1981
page_number
p.18, 107, 110. n.85
citation
Miller, Michael J., <em>Drawing, a Glossary of Materials: Selections from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987
page_number
p.4
citation
Olszewski, Edward J., Burton L. Dunbar, Robert Munman, et al. <em>Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings</em>. Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Harvey Miller, 2008.
page_number
p.55, n.7
creditline
Dudley P. Allen Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 05:41:49.295000
sourceId
105919
dept
Drawings
coll
DR - Italian
med
black chalk; framing lines in traces of gold ink
creatorTags
male
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image_url
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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