In The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity, how is the Preparatory drawings discussed?
There are three known preparatory drawings for The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity. Two studies of Ferdinand and Francesco Gonzaga are stored together in the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm, and one study of a halberdier is in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels.
For the decorative plan of the chapel at the Church of the Holy Trinity, there is also a beautiful drawing for The Baptism at the Louvre. Rubens's studies for the Mantuan cycle are among his oldest that are known, with relatively certain dating.
halberdier Nationalmuseum Francesco Gonzaga Mantua Royal Library of Belgium