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    Museum collections / The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Lower Half of Skeleton from the Back
    Battista Franco. Lower Half of Skeleton from the Back, early 1540s. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art

    AT-00011786

    Lower Half of Skeleton from the Back

    by Battista Franco

    Also known as: Full-Length Skeleton from the Back

    View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

    Inscriptions

    VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in graphite: 3.

    Provenance

    Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (Lugt 2445, lower left, blind stamped). Samuel Woodburn, London (Lugt 2584, not stamped); [his sale Christie's, London, 4-8 June 1860] (according to departmental cataloguing sheet). Boguslaw Jolles, Dresden and Vienna (Lugt 381a, lower left, in blue ink); [sale Munich, 28-31 October 1895] (according to departmental cataloguing sheet). Prof. Otto Neubauer, Munich and London (according to departmental card). Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cassirer, Cleveland.

    Exhibition history

    Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965). Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Cleveland Museum of Art publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Cleveland Museum of Art is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Battista Franco (Italian, c. 1510–1561)
    Date
    early 1540s
    Medium
    pen and brown ink with incised lines
    Dimensions
    Sheet: 18.1 x 17.3 cm (7 1/8 x 6 13/16 in.); Secondary Support: 18.1 x 17.3 cm (7 1/8 x 6 13/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    Drawing
    Department
    Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cassirer
    Accession no.
    1964.380.3

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