Woman and Children, ca. 1580

  • Italian
  • Luca Cambiaso, Italian, 1527-1585

Pencil on cream laid paper

  • Sheet: 13 3/4 × 9 1/4 inches (34.9 × 23.5 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1SDR39

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Watermark: [small cross over crescent (drawing)] Watermark: [grape cluster (lining)]

Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on mount, lower right: 190 [in circle] Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on backing sheet, verso, lower right: no 41 Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on backing sheet, verso, lower right: HX [underscored] | 100

James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 268-269, no. A5. Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, p. 109, cat. 90 (ill.).

Italian; after Luca Cambiaso, Woman and Children, ca. 1580, pencil on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR39.