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The Funeral of Saint Stephen

c. 1460

Filippo Lippi

(Italian, c. 1406–1469)

Italy, Florence, 15th century

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash with traces of stylus over traces of black chalk

Support: Beige(1) laid paper, lined with cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1947.70

Location

On view at:

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Nov 18, 2023 - Feb 11, 2024

Description

Few drawings exist from the mid-1400s in Italy, and most that have are figure and drapery studies from artist's model books. So this sheet is extremely important as one of the few known compositional studies by a major artist from this period. Stylistic comparison to other drawings by Lippi and the fact that it relates to a fresco painting by him of the same subject confirms its authenticity.

Inscriptions

Inscription

verso of secondary support, center, in brown ink: Pordonone Fece

Provenance

Possibly Giorgio Vasari, Arezzo

Paul Oswald, Locarno

1922 (?)

Carl O. Schniewind, Zurich and Chicago

ca. 1936

possibly Ludwig Rosenthal, Bern and Munich ¹

ca. 1936

with Dr. F. A. Drey, Munich

1936

with P & D Colnaghi, London

Colonel Norman Colville, London

with P & D Colnaghi, London

ca. 1947

with Dr. August Maria Klipstein (1885-1951), Bern

1947

with Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY.

Provenance Footnotes

¹According to a letter in the CMA object file to Henry Francis from Dr. F. A. Drey, Ludwig Rosenthal, of Berne and (from 1936) Montreal, owned the drawing, but Ludwig Rosenthal did not recognize the drawing as one that he had owned when he visited the Cleveland Museum of Art on 22 June 1967.

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 569 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 79 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 78 archive.org

Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. 1971. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 51

Ragghianti Collobi, Licia. Il "Libro de' disegni" ed i ritratti per le "Vite" del Vasari, Critica D'arte 18 (March-April 1972): pp. 13-40. p. 18.

Ragghianti Collobi, Licia. Il Libro de' disegni del Vasari. Vols. 1-2. Firenze: Vallecchi, 1974. Vol. 1, p. 60

Borsook, Eve, “Fra Filippo Lippi and the Murals for Prato Cathedral.” Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 19 (1): 1975: pp. 1-148 23-24, fig. 31

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 90 archive.org

Meder, Joseph, and Winslow Ames. The mastery of drawing. Vols. 1-2. New York, N.Y.: Abaris Books, 1978. Vol 1, pp. 31, 426; Vol. 2, fig. 16

Cadogan, Jean K. Maestri toscani del Quattrocento: Lorenzo Monaco, Ghiberti, Paolo Uccello, Filippo Lippi, Pesellino, Andrea del Castagno, Ghirlandaio, Bartolomeo di Giovanni, Benozzo Gozzoli, etc. Firenze. Vol. 17 Biblioteca di Disegni, Istituto Alinari, 1980. 25-26

Ruda, Jeffrey. Filippo Lippi Studies: Naturalism, Style, and Iconography in Early Renaissance Art. New York: Garland Pub, 1982. 152-154, 164-165, fig. 81

Miller, Michael. "A Michelangelo Drawing." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 5 (1990): 146-74. Reproduced: p. 158; Mentioned: p. 158, 173 www.jstor.org

Ruda, Jeffrey, and Filippo Lippi. Fra Filippo Lippi: Life and Work with a Complete Catalogue. London: Phaidon Press, 1993. pp. 342-346, plate 93

Olszewski, Edward J. and Burton L. Dunbar. Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus. Vol 1. The Early Works. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. 18-25, no. 4

Roettgen, Steffi, Antonio Quattrone, and Russell Stockman. Italian Frescoes. New York : Abbeville Press, 1996. 305-306, fig. 77

Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. Mentioned: cat. no. 2, p. 7, pp. 22-23, p. 283; Reproduced: p. 23

Biondi, Lucia. "Fantasia e Disciplina": Le Contraddizioni nella Pittura di Filippo Lippi emerse nel Restauro dell'Annunciazione Martelli e il Confronto con le Opere degli Anni Quaranta Quattrocento." In Intorno all'Annunciazione Martelli di Filippo Lippi, riflessioni dopo il restauro., 92-116. Monica Bietti, editor. Firenze: Mandragora, 2018. Reproduced: p. 109, fig. 20

Exhibition history

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960).

Paintings by Old Masters. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. (organizer) (June 15-July 16, 1960).

The Renaissance Image of Man and the World. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 27, 1961).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964).

Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).

Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 15-December 4, 1978).

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

Treasures on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988).

The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (October 27, 1997-January 11, 1998).

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

Michelangelo: Mind of the Master. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22, 2019-January 5, 2020).

Botticelli: The Drawings. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (November 18, 2023-February 11, 2024) https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/botticelli-drawings.

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