Frau mit Kind auf einem Esel (Maria mit dem Kind), ca. 1555

Title

Frau mit Kind auf einem Esel (Maria mit dem Kind)

Draughtsman

• Lelio Orsi

Recto

Frau mit Kind auf einem Esel (Maria mit dem Kind)

Production Place

• Rome?

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• High Renaissance

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing

Geographic Reference

• Upper Italian

Production Reason

• figure study
• animal study
• composition study

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• Biblical portrayal

Persons Shown

• Mary
• Christ Child

Illustrated Passage

• Bibel, Neues Testament, Matthäus 2,13-14

Primary

• 46C131 riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman

Secondary

• 42A37 watching a sleeping child
• 46C13142 ass, donkey
• 41D2122(+82) cape (+ women's clothes)

Alternative

• 73B641 the flight into Egypt: Mary, Joseph, the child (and sometimes others) on their way; Mary usually riding on an ass

Historic Attribution

• Correggio draughtsman