Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011777Saint Peter Martyr
Inscriptions
RECTO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower center, in brown ink: Ippolito Scarsellino . [Scarsellino underlined in graphite] ; lower center, in blue pencil: . 1551 ; lower center, in blue pencil: 1621 . ; lower right, in graphite: - voir au versò - ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, across top, in brown ink: Ippolito Scarsellino [underlined] da Ferrara [Ferrara underlined], figlio di Sigismondo Scarsella [Sigismondo Scarsella underlined] , excellete Disegnatore [illegible]. / morì L'anno 1620 ____ Orlandi [Orlandi underlined]; who, speaking of his Father, in this Article, & of the / fine works he left behind him in his own country of Ferrara [Ferrara underlined] ; says ___ L'opera più / bella che Lasciasse alla sua città fù il figlio Ippolito. [entire Italian phrase underlined]. A good Cavalier Expresion for / a monk! ; upper left, in graphite: 20ºº ; upper center, in blue pencil: # 46 ; upper right, in blue pencil: 20ºº ; upper left, in graphite(?): [illegible] ---- 10 [erased] ; upper left, in graphite: 74 [circled] ; center left, in graphite: 10 [sideways, erased] ; lower left, in graphite: OK-P . / 2 of Ma[r?] '61
Provenance
Jonathan Richardson, Jr., London (Lugt 2170, lower right, in black ink). Count Jan Pieter van Suchtelen, St. Petersburg (Lugt 2332, lower left, in black ink). Dr. Daniel A. Huebsch, Cleveland (according to departmental card); Robert Hays Gries, Cleveland
Exhibition history
Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964). 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
- Giovanni Battista Paggi (Italian, 1554–1627)
- Date
- late 1500s
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 33.6 x 23.5 cm (13 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.); Secondary Support: 42.3 x 31.8 cm (16 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Hays Gries
- Accession no.
- 1939.669
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