The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of November 30, 2023

Mercury

18th century

Anonymous

Italy, 18th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over graphite

Support: Beige(1) laid paper perimeter mounted to a false margin of beige(1) wove paper

Sheet: 22.2 x 13.8 cm (8 3/4 x 5 7/16 in.); Secondary Support: 27.2 x 18.1 cm (10 11/16 x 7 1/8 in.)

Bequest of Gordon K. Mott 1998.314

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper center, in graphite: Flemish Mannerist / XVII c ; lower left, in graphite: 31093; lower left, in graphite: GANDOLFi

Provenance
[August Laube, Zurich, Switzerland, 1974 (old label on mat)]
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1998.314