Saint Christopher Bearing the Christ Child, 1484?1539
Saint Christopher Bearing the Christ Child, 1484-1539, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on blue paper, squared vertically and horizontally in red chalk, diagonally in charcoal, 14 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (36.2 x 24.8 cm), Drawings, Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis) (Italian, Pordenone 1483?-1539 Ferrara), This pictorial chiaroscuro study is Pordenone's finished drawing for the Saint Christopher he painted on one of the two shutters of a cupboard for ecclesiastical silver in Saint Rocco, Venice, about 1527 (Cohen, 1980, fig- 44)
Picture No
11983294
Media ID
46896872
Size
3738px x 5405px
(16.7MB)
Credit
© The Liszt Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Artokoloro Liszt Collection
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