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Head of a Boy

c. 1460

Italy, Florence, 15th century

marble
Overall: 23.6 x 19.7 x 3.9 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/4 x 1 9/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1931.454
Location: Not on view
  • Eugène Piot, 1812-1890
    Charles Timbal, 1821-1880 (Paris, France), sold to Gustave Dreyfus, 1871.
    Gustave Dreyfus, 1837-1914 (Paris, France), upon his death, probably by inheritance to his heirs.
    Heirs of Gustave Dreyfus, probably sold to Duveen Brothers, Inc., 1930.
    Duveen Brothers, Inc. (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1931.
  • Duveen, Joseph and Clarence Kennedy. Dreyfus Collection Sculpture. Florence: MST [i.e. Tyszkiewicz], 1930. Reproduced: cat no. XXXIV
    "The Head of a Singing Boy by Luca Della Robbia. From the Gustave Dreyfus Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 19, no. 2, part 1 (December 1932): 19-21 Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned p. 20. www.jstor.org
    Duveen Brothers. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America; A Catalogue Raisonné with Illustrations of Italian Renaissance, Sculptures by the Great Masters, Which Have Passed Through the House of Duveen. New York: William Bradford Press, 1944. Reproduced and mentioned: cat. no. 19
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 208 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. 79 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. 79 archive.org
    Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. 1971. Reproduced and mentioned: cat. no. 25
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 90 archive.org
    Legé, Alice Silvia. Gustave Dreyfus: Collectionneur et Mécène dans le Paris de la Belle Époque. Milan: Officina libraria, 2019. Mentioned: p. 79; Reproduced: p. 133, fig. 50
  • Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).
    The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
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