id: 118663 accession number: 1939.670 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.670 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:04.594000 Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto) Architectural Studies (verso) [partially visible on recto], c. 1570. Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588). Pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries 1939.670 title: Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto) Architectural Studies (verso) [partially visible on recto] title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1570 creation date earliest: 1565 creation date latest: 1575 current location: creditline: Gift of Robert Hays Gries copyright: --- culture: Italy, Venice, 16th century technique: pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588) - artist --- measurements: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Drawings by Old Italian Masters opening date: 1940-06-05T04:00:00 Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1942-06-17T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Old Master Drawings opening date: 1964-03-10T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964). title: Italian Prints and Drawings opening date: 1968-01-30T05:00:00 Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968). title: Veronese and His Studio in North American Collections opening date: 1972-10-01T04:00:00 Veronese and His Studio in North American Collections. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (organizer) (October 1-November 15, 1972); Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL (December 2-31, 1972). title: The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles opening date: 1979-03-06T05:00:00 The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979). title: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00 Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980). title: Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions opening date: 1980-10-21T04:00:00 Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981). title: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). title: Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1986-12-16T05:00:00 Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987). title: Veronese: Painter and Craftsman opening date: 1988-11-13T05:00:00 Veronese: Painter and Craftsman. National Gallery of Art (organizer) (November 13, 1988-February 20, 1989). title: Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650 opening date: 1991-08-27T04:00:00 Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Possibly the Durazzo family, Venice date: footnotes: citations: Dr. Daniel Huebsch, Cleveland date: footnotes: citations: Robert Hays Gries (1900-1966), Cleveland. date: ?-1939 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1939- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The sheet of paper was a more vibrant, pure blue when the drawing was made; aging has rendered the color of the sheet closer to a green-gray. digital description: In the last decades of his career, Paolo Veronese and his workshop produced a number of idyllic visions of the Holy Family in repose in the countryside during their flight into Egypt. This crowded sheet of loose, lively sketches was recently proposed to have inaugurated an intensive period of interest in this subject that began around 1570. The sheet shows two horizontal rows with eight versions of the seated Virgin holding the Christ Child, in some of the sketches accompanied by the infant John the Baptist or Joseph, and in one by a donkey. The sheet presents an unusual case of being preparatory not for paintings, but for finished chiaroscuro drawings, now in London, Berlin, and Cambridge, MA. While the individual sketches may appear at first glance a mass of tangled lines and confused forms, such pen and ink drawings demonstrate the Venetian artist's restless creative energy. wall description: One of the most important painters working in Venice in the 1500s, Paolo Caliari, better known as Veronese, is famous today for his dramatic, brightly colored compositions of religious and mythological subjects painted on a monumental scale. He is highly respected as an innovative draftsman; scholars estimate that Veronese must have produced thousands of drawings in his lifetime, yet only around 150 survive today. This sheet of sketches includes eight possible figure combinations depicting the Christian Bible story of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Christ resting on their flight into Egypt, drawn in Veronese’s distinctively energetic pen and brown wash style. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: Scholz, Janos. "Italian Drawings in the Art Museum of Princeton University." The Burlington Magazine 109, no. 770 (May 1967): 290 + 292-299. page number: Mentioned: p. 296, note 34 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/875302 Rosand, David. "Three Drawings by Paolo Veronese." Pantheon 29 (May-June 1971): 203-209. page number: Mentioned: pp. 204, 206-209; Reproduced: p. 206, n. 3 url: Clayton, Stephen W, edited. Veronese & His Studio In North American Collections. [Birmingham, AL.]: [Birmingham Museum of Art], 1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 7; Reproduced: p. 44 url: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, vol. 3. London: Phaidon Press for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1973. page number: Mentioned: p. 44 url: Pignatti, Terisio. Veronese, vol. 1. Venice: Alfieri, 1976. page number: Mentioned: p. 169, under n. A5; Reproduced: n. 722 url: Cocke, Richard. "Veronese's Independent Chiaroscuro Drawings." Master Drawings 15, no. 3 (Autumn 1977): 259-268 + 295-309. page number: Mentioned: p. 263, note 22 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1553441 Armenini, Giovanni Battista. On the True Precepts of the Art of Painting. Translated and edited by Edward J. Olszewski. New York: B. Franklin, 1977. page number: Reproduced: n. 24 url: Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. page number: Mentioned: pp. 27-28, under n. 19; Reproduced: p. 27 url: Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Mentioned: pp. 18, 75, 109, 119, 135-136, under n. 109 url: Cocke, Richard. Veronese's Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne. London: Sotheby Publications, 1984. page number: Mentioned: pp. 21, 28, 71, 95-96, 103, 111; Reproduced: p. 102, n. 34 url: Rearick, William R. The Art of Paolo Veronese, 1528-1588. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1988. page number: Mentioned: pp. 94-95, under n. 46; Reproduced: p. 95 url: Bettagno, Alessandro. Paolo Veronese, disegni e dipinti. Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 1988. page number: Mentioned: p. 57, under n. 12 url: Pignatti, Terisio, and Filippo Pedrocco. Veronese, vol. 2. Milan: Electa, 1995. page number: Mentioned: p. 504, under n. A3 url: DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: P. 6, 44-45, 285; Reproduced: P. 45, cat. no.12 url: Olszewski, Edward J., edited. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 2. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008. page number: Mentioned: p. 489-491, under n. 387; Reproduced: p. 489, n. 387 url: Brilliant, Virginia, et al. Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice. London: Scala, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 169, n. 34 url: Rosand, David. Véronèse. Translated by Odile Menegaux and Renaud Temperini. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2012. page number: Mentioned: pp. 328, 332; Reproduced: p. 330, n. 282 url: Brilliant, Virginia, et al. Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice. London, England: Scala, 2012. page number: cat. 34; pp. 167-69, 202-03, 267 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.670/1939.670_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.670/1939.670_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.670/1939.670_full.tif