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Sep 23, 2010

Design for a Ceiling: Mars and Aries

1700s

Italy, 18th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and watercolor, with gouache, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink

Support: Cream(3) laid paper (with two hinged pieces of cream(3) laid paper added as alternate design), tipped on green wove paper

Sheet: 24.9 x 24.7 cm (9 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.); Secondary Support: 45.1 x 33.9 cm (17 3/4 x 13 3/8 in.)

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1927.337

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not on view

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Inscription

by artist, upper center, in brown ink: A. / [illegible]A ; by artist?, center right, in brown ink: N. I. ; by artist, across bottom, in brown ink: Levare La Cantonata N°. L. con Levare La colonna nell' angolo. e [pornici?] di sotto una conchiglia e So[tto?] Una maschera ; RECTO OF SEPARATELY APPLIED PIECE OF PAPER (lower right), in brown ink: N [O?]. ; VERSO OF SEPARATELY APPLIED PIECE OF PAPER (lower right), in graphite: nº 2343 / C [erased] c. an ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in graphite: 971

Provenance

[S. Mayer, Paris] (according to departmental card); Mr. Sizer (according to departmental card)

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, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions (Oct. 21, 1980-Feb. 15, 1981).

CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 102, illus., p. 119.

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Apr. 27, 1972-Feb. 2, 1973).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; Mar. 16, 1971- (Gallery F remained open)).

CMA, Italian Prints and Drawings (Jan. 30-Mar. 26, 1968).

CMA, Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection (May 6-Sep. 9, 1965).

CMA, Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands (Jan. 14-Mar. 24, 1965).

CMA, Old Master Drawings (Mar. 10-30, 1964).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Sep. 10, 1963).

CMA, "Miscellaneous Installation" (Jan. 21-Feb. 13, 1957).

CMA, The Venetian Tradition (Nov. 8, 1956-Jan. 1, 1957), no. 75.

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 30-Dec. 8, 1950; rehung Jan. 8, 1951, "with small changes").

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May. 14, 1946- ).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (July 27, 1944- ).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 17-Oct. 4, 1942).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Oct. 28, 1941-May 31, 1942).

CMA, "Supplement to Silver Jubilee Exh." (July 22-Oct. 26, 1941).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 4-Apr., 1941).

CMA, Drawings by Old Italian Masters from the Collection (June 5, 1940-Feb. 25, 1941).

Toledo Museum of Art, Four Centuries of Venetian Painting (Mar. 3-31, 1940), no. 84.

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 4-Mar. 26, 1939).

CMA, Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London, Supplemented by Drawings from the Collection (Oct. 1-30, 1938).

CMA, Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).

CMA, "40 Drawings from the Museum Collection" (May 28-Nov. 7, 1937).

CMA, Laces and Drawings from the Museum Collection (Dec. 16, 1936-Jan. 3, 1937).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May 21-Dec. 13, 1936).

CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections (July 10-Sep. 15, 1935).

CMA, Exhibition of Lace, Drawings, and Furniture (July 11-Sep. 3. 1934).

CMA, "Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection" (June 5, 1930-Jan. 9, 1931; Feb. 20-Mar. 15, 1931; June 10, 1931-Jan. 16, 1932; Feb. 24-Mar. 17, 1932).

Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 11, 1933).

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

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