Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011623Ceres
by Lelio Orsi
Inscriptions
RECTO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper left, in brown ink: [del?] cat 63 ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower center, in brown ink (on separately applied piece of paper): nta tre[illegible] [cropped at beginning and end of inscription] ; upper center, in blue pencil: # 53 ; upper right, in blue pencil: 20 ºº ; center, in graphite: 88 [circled] ; lower left, in graphite: [illegible] 63 . [sideways]
Provenance
?Unidentified stamp, lower left, in black ink. Dr. Daniel A. Huebsch, Cleveland (according to departmental card). Robert Hays Gries, Cleveland
Exhibition history
Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941). Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981). Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987). Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lelio Orsi (Italian, 1511–1587)
- Date
- 16th century
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash; incised, squared in black chalk, framing lines in graphite (left and bottom)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.6 x 18.7 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 in.); Secondary Support: 29.3 x 22 cm (11 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Hays Gries
- Accession no.
- 1939.655
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