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Sketches of Virgin and Child

1550–1600

Giulio Campi

(Italian, c. 1500–1572)

Italy, 16th century

Black chalk; framing lines in traces of gold ink

Support: Blue laid paper

Sheet: 20.3 x 13.4 cm (8 x 5 1/4 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1924.1002

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

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.

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.

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO, lower left, in brown ink: Parmigiano . 3 . 1 ; VERSO OF OLD MOUNT (now removed, see photograph in departmental file) center right: Parmigeano ; lower center: A 3548 ; lower center: 13 ; ON OLD MOUNT (now lost; recorded on departmental cataloguing sheet): F. C. 2489

Provenance
Jonathan Richardson, Sr., London (Lugt 2183, lower right, in black ink; Lugt 2983-2984 or possibly John Barnard mount and inscription?, verso of old mount (now removed), upper center, written in ink: L. 74. / G.) . [FritzRoy Carrington]
Exhibition history

CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 85, illus., pp. 18, 107.

CMA, Old Master Drawings (Mar. 10-30, 1964).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Sep. 10, 1963).

CMA, "Miscellaneous Installation" (Jan. 21-Feb. 13, 1957).

CMA (installed, gallery VI July 22, 1956).

CMA, installed in case, armor court (Jan. 29-Apr. 20, 1952).

CMA, (gallery V July 9-Nov. 7, 1948).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 20-Apr. 26, 1948).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 17-Oct. 4, 1942).

CMA, Drawings by Old Italian Masters from the Collection (June 5, 1940-Feb. 25, 1941).

CMA, Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London, Supplemented by Drawings from the Collection (Oct. 1-30, 1938).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Feb. 10-Apr. 28, 1937).

CMA, "Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection" (June 5, 1930-Jan. 9, 1931; Feb. 20-Mar. 15, 1931; June 10, 1931-Jan. 16, 1932).

Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 30-October 30, 1938).

Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964).

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).

Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001).

Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1924.1002