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20-05-2026
Bartolomé Carducho

Florence (Italy), 1560 - Madrid (Spain), 1608

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Saint Lawrence, baptising Prisoners

Ca. 1589. Black chalk, Wash, White chalk on grey paper.
Not on display

It is a preparatory drawing for the painting corresponding to the Series of the Monastery of El Escorial, painted in 1589. However, in reality, both drawing and painting only coincide in the general configuration of the composition. It is undoubtedly an early version, later discarded.

In the scene, Saint Lawrence, dressed in a deacon’s dalmatic, baptises a Roman soldier kneeling in the centre of the composition. Several elderly men surround him. In the background, on either side, bound prisoners appear, one of whom is suspended from ropes by a barred window.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de dibujos T. I. Dibujos españoles, siglos XV-XVII / por A. E. Pérez Sánchez, Madrid, 1972, p.24-25

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Technical data

Inventory number
D000008
Author
Bartolomé Carducho
Title
Saint Lawrence, baptising Prisoners
Date
Ca. 1589
Technique
Black chalk; Wash; White chalk
Support
Grey paper
Dimension
Height: 220 mm; Width: 345 mm
Series
Serie Vida de San Lorenzo
Provenance
Royal Collection

Bibliography +

Sánchez Cantón, Francisco Javier, Dibujos españoles / material reunido por el Centro de Estudios Históricos y publicado por F. J. Sánchez Cantón, II, Hauser y Menet, Madrid, 1930, pp. 127.

Angulo Íñiguez, D.; Pérez Sánchez, A. E., Historia de la pintura española: escuela madrileña del primer tercio del siglo XVII, Instituto Diego Velázquez, Madrid, 1969, pp. 34.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de dibujos T. I. Dibujos españoles, siglos XV-XVII / por A. E. Pérez Sánchez, Madrid, 1972, pp. 24-25.

Angulo Íñiguez, Diego, A corpus of spanish drawings. I (1400-1600), Harvey Miller, Londres, 1975, pp. nº98 Lám.XXXIII.

El dibujo español de los siglos de oro / [preparación, estudio preliminar y catálogo Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez]., Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, 1980, pp. 46, nº 43 /lám. 15.

Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso Emilio, Historia del dibujo en España: de la Edad Media a Goya, Cátedra, Madrid, 1986, pp. 141.

Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E., Dessins espagnols: maîtres des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Reunion des Musées Nationaux, París, 1991, pp. 49, nº 6.

Other inventories +

Inv. General, Sección 3ª. Dibujos, grabados, acuarelas y miniaturas, 1879. Núm. 123.
123. Conversion a la fé Catolica de un personage Romano- A. Vicente Carducho - alto 0,22 ancho 0,34. marco negro y cristal.

Inv. Dibujos, Fondo Antiguo. Núm. 4.

Inscriptions +

Bartholome Carducho
Inscribed in pen and ink. Front, lower central area

[¿?] Rs
Front, lower left area

De carducho
Inscribed in pen and ink. Front, Lower right area

de barme. carducho
Inscribed in pen and ink. Front, Lower right area

Nº. 13
Inscribed. Front, lower right corner

[¿?]Rs
Front, lower central area

Exhibitions +

Vicente Carducho (1576-1638)
Madrid
28.05.2015 - 06.09.2015

Update date: 20-05-2026 | Registry created on 02-12-2015

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