Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist (recto); large-scale cropped sketches of draperies and legs (verso)

Quick Overview

Artist: Gregorio Pagani (Italian, Florence 1558–1605)
Date: 1590–92
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk on blue paper (recto); black chalk (verso); squared in black chalk
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 6 3/4 in. (22.6 × 17.2 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey, Karen B. Cohen, Charles and Jessie Price, and The Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gifts, 2016
Accession no.: 2016.458

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The Flight into Egypt
Gregorio Pagani
c. 1590 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00011474
The Head and Shoulders of a Woman in Profile; Separate Studies of Her Head and Ear (recto); Fragment of Drapery Study, Profile of Architectural Molding (verso)
Gregorio Pagani
1592 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022267

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.