The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 28, 2023

Ceiling Study: Allegory of Peace and War

c. 1800 ?

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

(Italian, 1762–1844)

Italy, late 18th-early 19th Century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk

Support: Light gray laid paper, laid down on cream(3) wove paper, perimeter mounted to a tertiary support of wove paper

Sheet: 29.7 x 43 cm (11 11/16 x 16 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 29.7 x 43 cm (11 11/16 x 16 15/16 in.); Tertiary Support: 37.8 x 50.9 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/16 in.)

Delia E. Holden Fund 1971.31

Location

not on view

Exhibition history

CMA, Eighteenth-Century Master Drawings from the Collection (Oct. 6-Nov. 22, 1981).

CMA, "Year in Review for 1971" (Dec. 28, 1971-Feb. 6, 1972), cma Bulletin 60 (1973), p. 42 no. 62, illus. p. 11.

Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).

18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981).

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

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1971.31