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Man in Armor beside a Chariot

c. 1550

assistant of Francesco Salviati

(Italian, 1510–1563)

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white

Support: Brown-green laid(?) paper, laid down on brown laid(?) paper, laid down on a tertiary support of board

Sheet: 35.7 x 27.1 cm (14 1/16 x 10 11/16 in.); Secondary Support: 35.7 x 27.4 cm (14 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.); Tertiary Support: 35.8 x 27.4 cm (14 1/8 x 10 13/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1964.99

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Description

This drawing of a young soldier setting fire to a cart of war trophies may represent a rarely depicted legend about the Macedonian king Alexander the Great (356–323 BC), who built one of the largest empires of the ancient world by the time he was 30 years old. Because the heavy spoils of war were slowing down his troops, Alexander set fire to his own cart of goods to encourage his soldiers to do the same. Renaissance princes revered him as a brilliant military strategist. Emperor Maximilian I (reigned 1486–1519), pictured in the equestrian portrait and in the great triumphal car nearby, considered Alexander a distant ancestor.

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower right, in graphite: [illegible] / Elève de Raphael [in parentheses] ; lower right, in graphite(?): [illegible] ; VERSO OF TERTIARY SUPPORT, upper left, in blue crayon: WCA 2302 ; center, in graphite: Maturino / Elève de Raphael [underlined, in parentheses) ; center right, in graphite: Ecole de Rome [in parentheses]

Provenance

Giuseppe Vallardi (Lugt 1223, stamped, lower left, in blue ink)

Maurice Marignane (Lugt 1872, stamped, lower right, in blue ink)

Citations

Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Cleveland: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1981. no. 28, illus.

"Year in Review for 1964." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 10 (1964): 236-66. p. 266 no. 139, illus. p. 242 www.jstor.org

Exhibition history

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

Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 117): February 7, 2013 - June 3, 2013.

Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).

Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).

Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982).

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

Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).

Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-December 31, 2017).

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