The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 10, 2023

Ceres

16th century

Lelio Orsi

(Italian, 1511–1587)

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash; incised, squared in black chalk, framing lines in graphite (left and bottom)

Support: Beige(1) laid paper, laid down on cream(3) laid paper, paper strips mounted to perimeter

Sheet: 25.6 x 18.7 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 in.); Secondary Support: 29.3 x 22 cm (11 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

Gift of Robert Hays Gries 1939.655

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

RECTO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper left, in brown ink: [del?] cat 63 ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower center, in brown ink (on separately applied piece of paper): nta tre[illegible] [cropped at beginning and end of inscription] ; upper center, in blue pencil: # 53 ; upper right, in blue pencil: 20 ºº ; center, in graphite: 88 [circled] ; lower left, in graphite: [illegible] 63 . [sideways]

Provenance
?Unidentified stamp, lower left, in black ink. Dr. Daniel A. Huebsch, Cleveland (according to departmental card). Robert Hays Gries, Cleveland
Exhibition history

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

CMA, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions (Oct. 21, 1980-Feb. 15, 1981).

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

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).

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

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).

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

Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

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