Collection Online as of June 8, 2023

Copy of a Roman Statue of a Seated Woman

c. 1450–94

circle of Domenico Ghirlandaio

(Italian, 1449–1494)

Italy, 15th century

Pen and brown ink (two different colors) with graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink

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

Sheet: 23 x 12.8 cm (9 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.); Secondary Support: 23 x 12.8 cm (9 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.)

Gift of Robert Hays Gries 1939.653

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Upper right, in red crayon: 5°°

Inscription

unidentified collector's mark, lower left, in blue ink.

Inscription

recto of secondary support, in top half, in brown ink: [illegible, visible in transmitted light]

Inscription

verso of secondary support, upper center, in red crayon: A 37

Inscription

upper center, in graphite: Donatello

Inscription

upper center, in red crayon: [Donatello?] [erased]

Provenance

Dr. Daniel A. Huebsch, Cleveland, OH

?-1939

Robert Hays Gries, Cleveland, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art

December 19, 1939-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

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

Exhibition history

CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).

CMA, Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism (Feb. 19-Mar. 23, 1980), pp. 16-7, illus.

Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980).

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

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

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