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Landscape with a River and Aqueduct

mid 1600s

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

(Italian, 1606–1680)

Italy, 17th century

Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk

Support: Beige(1) laid paper, laid down on beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 35.7 x 46.3 cm (14 1/16 x 18 1/4 in.); Secondary Support: 45.5 x 59.9 cm (17 15/16 x 23 9/16 in.)

Delia E. Holden Fund 1984.57

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

RECTO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower center, in brown ink: V. Titian. / 1477-1526. ; lower left, in graphite: [44?] ; lower left, in red ink: 52 ; lower left and lower center, in graphite: 3/4 Gilt B & [illegible] - 2"x P f M[t?] [illegible] [illegible] - Wa[x?] ; lower center, in graphite: From the Colln. of Lord Brownlow. ; lower right, in graphite: X Titian. (Vecelli) [Vecelli is crossed out] Pieve 1477-1576. ; lower right, in graphite: [7x7?] [underlined, partially erased] / [illegible, partially erased] ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in graphite: 383849 ; lower right, in graphite: [J?].567. [circled]

Provenance
Lord Brownlow (not stamped, not in Lugt) (according to inscription on recto of secondary support). [Somerville and Simpson, London]
Exhibition history

CMA, Concept, Dogma, and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650 (Aug. 27-Oct. 20, 1991).

CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).

CMA, "Year in Review for 1984" (April 3-May 5, 1985), cma Bulletin 72 (1985), p. 204 no. 110, illus. p. 178.

Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).

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

Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).

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