St. Helen discovering the True Cross
XVI century. Wash, Pencil, Pencil ground, Grey-brown ink on yellow paper.Not on display
The use of light brown wash is characteristic of India´s style, as is the quirky drawing of the hair of many of the figures, especially that of the two ecclesiastics kneeling in the left foreground. The drawings shows St. Helen´s discovery on the True Cross, when a corpse was miraculously raised from the dead after having been placed on its beams, in the presence of spectators among them St. Helen herself and bishop kneeling in the foreground.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Chicago, Art Services International, 2008, p.306
