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Saint Christopher

c.1500

Andrea Mantegna

(Italian, 1431–1506)

Italy, late 15th-early 16th Century

Pen and brown ink and blue gouache with brush and green wash and traces of orange gouache, heightened with white gouache

Support: Beige(1) laid(?) paper, laid down on beige(1) wove paper

Sheet: 28.6 x 17.4 cm (11 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 28.7 x 17.6 cm (11 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1956.39

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

upper left, in brown ink: di propria mano di / mi[o?] andrea matenga ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, across top, in red-brown pencil: [illegible] / [illegible] ; RECTO OF OLD MOUNT(now removed), upper right, in brown ink: 16.

Provenance

Conte Lodovico Moscardo, Verona (according to departmental card); Marquis of Calceolari (according to letters from Fritz Lugt and F. Matthiesen in file). [Francis Matthiesen, London]

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 567 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 87 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 87 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 99 archive.org

Karet, Evelyn. The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. Mentioned: pp. 79-81, 101; reproduced: p. 81, fig. 3.14

Windows, Peter. "The Attributional Inscriptions in the Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings." Master Drawings, 56, no.4 (Winter 2018): 443-462. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 445, figs. 5-6

Windows, Peter. "The Attributional Inscriptions in the Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings." Master Drawings 56, no. 4 (Winter 2018): 443-462 Mentioned and reproduced; p.445, fig. 5-6

Exhibition history

CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Apr. 27, 1972-Feb. 2, 1973).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; Mar. 16, 1971- (Gallery F remained open)).

CMA, Italian Prints and Drawings (Jan. 30-Mar. 26, 1968).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 9, 1967-Jan. 21, 1968).

CMA, Old Master Prints and Drawings (July 29, 1966-Apr. 1, 1967).

CMA, Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection (May 6-Sep. 9, 1965).

CMA, Old Master Drawings (Mar. 10-30, 1964).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Sep. 10, 1963).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Sep. 19-Nov. 5, 1962).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 7-Apr. 26, 1962).

CMA, Art and Humanism in the Renaissance (Jan. 22-Feb. 25, 1962).

Detroit Institute of Arts, Italian Drawings of the Renaissance (Apr. 5-May 8, 1960), no. 14, illus. p. 29.

CMA, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition (Mar. 3, 1958-Oct. 11, 1959).

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

Italian Drawings of the Renaissance. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (April 5-May 8, 1960).

Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).

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).

Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).

Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968).

Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).

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