The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 7, 2023

Portrait of a Man

1500s

Italy, 16th century

Black and red chalk, with brown and purple chalk, heightened with white gouache

Support: Beige(1) laid paper, perimeter mounted to four separate strips of cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 27.6 x 18.5 cm (10 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.); Secondary Support: 28.3 x 19.5 cm (11 1/8 x 7 11/16 in.)

The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1929.11

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO (on separately mounted perimeter strip), lower center, in graphite: Daniel Du Moustier : 1574-1646 / French Crayon [underlined] and Pastel artist. Worked for Francis I / and Henry IV. Drew Portraits of all the distinguished men of the Time.

Provenance
according to departmental card: C. Fairfax-Murray; John Pierpont Morgan. [Gustav Nebehay]
Exhibition history

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Apr. 8, 1949).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 20-Apr. 26, 1948).

CMA, Drawings by Old Italian Masters from the Collection (June 5, 1940-Feb. 25, 1941).

CMA (added to "40 Drawings from the Museum Collection" (Oct. 8-Nov. 7, 1937)).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Feb. 10-Apr. 28, 1937).

CMA, "Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection" (June 5, 1930-Jan. 9, 1931; Feb. 20-Mar. 15, 1931; June 10, 1931-Jan. 16, 1932).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 28, 1937).

Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1929.11