Rest on the Flight into Egypt
circa 1563-64
16th century
34.7 cm x 23.9 cm (13 11/16 in. x 9 7/16 in.)
Luca Cambiaso
(Moneglia, Italy, 1527 - 1585, El Escorial, Spain)
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:
2017.971
The certainty and velocity of the strokes in this drawing indicate Cambiaso's own hand. The Virgin's drapery, however, is renderedd as a busy surface with little volume, and the hatching in the background fills the area without suggesting depth. The drawing is probably a replica of another.