The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 31, 2023

Floral Designs with Two Birds

1774

Giacomo Cavenezia

(Italian)

Italy, 18th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, gouache and watercolor, over traces of black chalk

Support: Cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 31.7 x 22.8 cm (12 1/2 x 9 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1952.289

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, upper left, in brown ink: giacomo cavenezia ; by artist, upper center, in brown ink: [illegible] 14: Marzo 1774 [1774 is underlined] ; upper center, in brown ink: [26?]

Provenance
[Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles] (according to departmental card)
Exhibition history

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (around Feb. 8, 1966).

Detroit Institute of Arts; Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, Venice 1700-1800 (Sep. 30-Nov. 2; Nov. 15-Dec. 31, 1952), nos. 282 a-f, no. 282 d (52.290) illus.

Flower and Fruit Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 25-October 10, 1960).

Design in Printed Textiles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 7-September 3, 1961).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1952.289