The Virgin and Saint Joseph find Jesus Disputing with the Doctors in the Temple

Camillo Procaccini

1555–1629 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, highlighted with white gouache, over charcoal, on brownish paper · Drawings and Prints

This pictorial oval study is stylistically similar to a sheet in the Louvre (inv.6733), which is a study for an oval fresco in the vault of the last bay to the right of the choir in the right nave of the Piacenza Cathedral.

Artist

Camillo Procaccini

Date

1555–1629

Medium

Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, highlighted with white gouache, over charcoal, on brownish paper

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Eugene Victor Thaw, 1962