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Study for Saint Herculanus Visited by an Angel,
1586–87
Paolo Veronese, Italian, 1528–1588
x1944-6
This rare brush drawing by the Venetian artist Paolo Veronese was made toward the end of his career, when his workshop carried out many of his paintings. The expressive luminosity of Veronese’s late style is conveyed in this drawing by the flickering brushwork that defines the figures and evokes the surrounding atmosphere. Representing Saint Herculanus, the sixth-century bishop of Brescia, the sheet is a preliminary design—including a pentimento, or change, in the saint’s head—for an altarpiece in the church of Sant’Andrea in Toscolano Maderno, on the west shore of Lake Garda in northern Italy. Although signed by Veronese, the canvas probably was executed by his brother, Benedetto Caliari.
Information
Title
Study for Saint Herculanus Visited by an Angel
Dates
1586–87
Maker
Medium
Brush and brown ink over black chalk, with traces of white chalk, on blue laid paper.
Dimensions
29.3 x 21.8 cm (11 9/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
frame: 53.3 × 40.8 × 3.2 cm (21 × 16 1/16 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1944-6
Inscription
Inscribed recto, upper left, in black ink: paolo Veronese
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 73
Culture
Materials
Subject
- Antonio Morassi, "Opere ignote ed inedite di Paolo Veronese", Bollettino d’arte 29 (n.s. 3), no. 6 (Dec., 1935): p. 249-258., p. 256-258
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Luciana Crosato Larcher, "Per Carletto Caliari", Arte Veneta, Rivista di Storia dell'Arte 1967, 21 (1968): p. 108-124.
, p. 110ff - David Rosand, "Three drawings by Paolo Veronese", Pantheon 29 (1971): p. 203-208., p. 203-208
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 21, no. 52 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- Virginia Brilliant, ed., Paolo Veronese: Paolo Veronese: a master and his workshop in Renaissance Venice, (London: Scala Publishers, 2012)., p. 206 (illus.)
- David Rosand, Véronèse , (Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2012).
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 83, cat. no. 34; p. 84 (illus.); p. 86 (verso illus.)
