Collection Online as of June 10, 2023
c. 1591
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
Inscriptions
Inscription Stamped in lower left corner, in black ink: PS [Lugt 2112]
Provenance Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm W. Bick, Longmeadow, Massachusetts (sale, Sotheby's, London, July 2, 1984, lot 46)
Bernard Sherak, Larchmont, New York
Sotheby's, New York, January, 29 2014, lot 22
W. M. Brady and Co., Inc., New York
Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 75
Exhibition history
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings , 1990, no. 3, reproduced
Imagining the Garden . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).
