Christ and the Woman of Samaria
circa 1565
16th century
33.02 cm x 24.45 cm (13 in. x 9 5/8 in.)
Workshop of Luca Cambiaso
(Moneglia (Genoa), 1527 - 1585, Madrid)
Primary
Object Type:
drawing
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Pen and brown ink
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017
Accession Number:
2017.978
There are many versions of this composition. This one is rendered with the darting, angular stroke of Luca Cambiaso's drawings of the mid 1560s. The figures, however, lack in structure, much of the surface articulation is random, and the hand is downright carless. The drawing is a fair replica from Cambiaso's workshop.