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Collection Online as of December 14, 2025

The Agony in the Garden

c. 1591

Santi di Tito

(Italian, 1536–1602)
Italy, 16th century
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white gouache with traces of black chalk on hillside above stairs, squared in black chalk, on blue paper; within brown ink framing lines. Lined with cream wove paper
Sheet: 20.2 x 15.1 cm (7 15/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2015.14
Location: Not on view
  • Paul Sandby (L.2112)
    Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London
    Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm W. Bick, Longmeadow, Massachusetts (sale, Sotheby's, London, July 2, 1984, lot 46)
    Bernard Sherak, Larchmont, New York
    Thence by descent
    Sotheby's, New York, January, 29 2014, lot 22
    W. M. Brady and Co., Inc., New York
  • Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 75
    Lemonedes, Heather. “Acquisitions 2015: Drawings.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 56, no. 2 (March/April 2016): 24-25. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 25 archive.org
  • Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).
    New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings, 1990, no. 3, reproduced
  • {{cite web|title=The Agony in the Garden |url=false|author=Santi di Tito|year=c. 1591|access-date=14 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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