The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Overdoor Decoration

c. 1675–1677

Grinling Gibbons

(British, 1648–1721)
England, 17th century
limewood
Overall: 68.6 x 86.4 cm (27 x 34 in.)
Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1943.663
Location: Not on view

Description

This wood carving by Grinling Gibbons, England’s most famous master of this medium, comes from the decoration above a door of the Inner Library at Cassiobury Park, near London, one of the artist’s earliest commissions. Decorative elements from this house were sold after it was pulled down in 1922, but many rooms were photographed before their destruction, and the original location of surviving carvings can thus be identified.
  • before 1943
    Grace Rainey Rogers [1867-1943], New York, NY
    1943
    (Parke-Bernet, November 18-19, 1943, lot. 399)., sold to P.W. French & Co.)
    1943
    (P.W. French & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1943-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Grinling Gibbons Society, Grinling Gibbons Online, accessed 7/2022. grinling-gibbons.org
  • No existing exhibition history
  • {{cite web|title=Overdoor Decoration|url=false|author=Grinling Gibbons|year=c. 1675–1677|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.663