The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 8, 2023

The Conversion of St. Paul

after 1575

Lelio Orsi

(Italian, 1511–1587)

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash

Support: Light brown laid paper (with two pieces laid paper added to top corners), laid down on beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 47.2 x 33 cm (18 9/16 x 13 in.); Secondary Support: 49 x 33.2 cm (19 5/16 x 13 1/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1951.348

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower right, in brown ink: Michelangelo / Bonarota f.

Provenance
Richard Cosway(?), London (Lugt 628(?), lower right, in black ink). Unidentified stamp (verso, upper right, visible through transmitted light). [Durlacher Bros.] (according to departmental card)
Exhibition history

CMA, I and Thou (Feb. 21-May 27, 1984).

CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 87, illus., pp. 83, 107.

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

CMA, Italian Prints and Drawings (Jan. 30-Mar. 26, 1968).

CMA, Old Master Drawings (Mar. 10-30, 1964).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Sep. 10, 1963).

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).

Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968).

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

I and Thou. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 21-May 27, 1984).

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