Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto) Architectural Studies (verso) partially visible on recto, c. 1570. Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528-1588). Pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash; sheet: 20.5 x 23.4 cm (8 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.); secondary support: 22 x 28.2 cm (8 11/16 x 11 1/8 in.). In the last decades of his career, Paolo Veronese and his workshop produced a number of idyllic visions of the Holy Family in repose in the countryside during their flight into Egypt. This crowded sheet of loose, lively sketches was recently proposed to have inaugurated an intensive period of interest in this subject that began around 1570. The sheet shows two horizontal rows with eight versions of the seated Virgin holding the Christ Child, in some of the sketches accompanied by the infant John the Baptist or Joseph, and in one by a donkey. The sheet presents an unusual case of being preparatory not for paintings, but for finished chiaroscuro drawings, now in London, Berlin, a