Collection Online as of June 8, 2023
c. 1460
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash with traces of stylus over traces of black chalk
Support: Beige(1) laid paper, lined with cream(3) laid paper
Sheet: 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1947.70
Description Few drawings exist from the mid-1400s in Italy, and most that have are figure and drapery studies from artist's model books. So this sheet is extremely important as one of the few known compositional studies by a major artist from this period. Stylistic comparison to other drawings by Lippi and the fact that it relates to a fresco painting by him of the same subject confirms its authenticity.
Inscriptions
Inscription verso of secondary support, center, in brown ink: Pordonone Fece
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. 569
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. 78
archive.org
Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage . 1971. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 51
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
Miller, Michael. "A Michelangelo Drawing."
The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 5 (1990): 146-74. Reproduced: p. 158; Mentioned: p. 158, 173
www.jstor.org
Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. Mentioned: cat. no. 2, p. 7, pp. 22-23, p. 283; Reproduced: p. 23
Biondi, Lucia. "Fantasia e Disciplina": Le Contraddizioni nella Pittura di Filippo Lippi emerse nel Restauro dell'Annunciazione Martelli e il Confronto con le Opere degli Anni Quaranta Quattrocento ." In Intorno all'Annunciazione Martelli di Filippo Lippi, riflessioni dopo il restauro ., 92-116. Monica Bietti, editor. Firenze: Mandragora, 2018. Reproduced: p. 109, fig. 20
Exhibition history
Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition . The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).
Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960).
Paintings by Old Masters . P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. (organizer) (June 15-July 16, 1960).
The Renaissance Image of Man and the World . Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 27, 1961).
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).
Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).
Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).
Treasures on Paper . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988).
The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle . The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (October 27, 1997-January 11, 1998).
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
Michelangelo: Mind of the Master . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22, 2019-January 5, 2020).
