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Half-Length Skeleton in Profile

early 1540s

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Battista Franco

(Italian, 1498?-1561)

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink; incised

Support: Light brown laid paper, laid down on beige(1) laid(?) paper

Sheet: 23.5 x 16.1 cm (9 1/4 x 6 5/16 in.); Secondary Support: 23.5 x 16.1 cm (9 1/4 x 6 5/16 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cassirer 1964.380.1

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in graphite: 4 .

Provenance

Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (Lugt 2445, lower left, blind stamped). Samuel Woodburn, London (Lugt 2584, not stamped); [his sale Christie's, London, 4-8 June 1860] (according to departmental cataloguing sheet). Boguslaw Jolles, Dresden and Vienna (Lugt 381a, lower left, in blue ink); [sale Munich, 28-31 October 1895] (according to departmental cataloguing sheet). Prof. Otto Neubauer, Munich and London (according to departmental card). Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cassirer, Cleveland.

Exhibition history

CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 48, illus. (recto), pp. 23, 76.

CMA, Ars Medica (Aug. 3-Dec. 12, 1965).

CMA, "Year in Review for 1964" (Dec. 8, 1964-Feb. 17, 1965), cma Bulletin 51 (1964), p. 265 no. 115.

Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).

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