Flight into Egypt

Primary Cigoli (Ludovico Cardi) (Castello di Cigoli, Italy, 1559–Rome, Italy, 1613)

NationalityItalian, Europe

Date1607

MediumPen and brown ink with brush and blue and brown washes with touches of white heightening over black chalk on cream antique laid paper

DimensionsSheet: 18 9/16 × 14 3/16 in. (47.1 × 36 cm)

Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1046

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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings

Object number2017.1046

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Cigoli was the most progressive of a group of Florentine artists who rejected the cool formula of Mannerism in favor of greater naturalism, dynamism and expressive immediacy. Active in Rome after 1604, he participated in several of the most important commissions of the period. This drawing was an advanced preparatory study for a painting commissioned by Margaret of Austria in 1607. An incessant and resourceful draftsman, Cigoli offered two possible placements for the figure of Saint Joseph amid swirling pen work and deft accents in blue wash.

Exhibitions

500 Years of Prints and Drawings Part III

Rome in the Time of Clement VIII