Paulus en Barnabas in Lystra

227 Paul and Barnabas at Lystra

Inv. no. E 052
Pen and two types of brown ink, brown wash, over traces
of black chalk, on light tan paper. Framing lines in pen and
brown ink (fragmentary) and in pencil.
131 x 263 mm
Inv. 1854: not identified; inv. 1864: C 11 (“Paolo Veroneze,
Eene offerslagting, bruine inkt”); inv. 1920: Roman-Bolognese
school
Provenance: Odescalchi; acquired for the Museum in 1790
(not stamped with L. 2392)
Literature: Ariuli 2002, p. 252.

The purpose of the composition, which illustrates Acts xiv:14-
16, is not known. Van Regteren Altena suggested the attribution
to Grimaldi, subsequently confirmed by Chiarini (notes
on the mount). The drawing was done in various stages: the
figural scene was complete when Grimaldi added the cluster of
trees and architectural fragments in the right foreground, partly
covering the previously drawn and shaded steps. He used the
same pen in a darker ink to add accents to some of the figures.