The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2023

Illustration from Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata

1586–1590

Bernardo Castello

(Italian, 1557–1629)

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash with traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink

Support: Light brown laid paper, laid down on beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 21.3 x 20.5 cm (8 3/8 x 8 1/16 in.); Secondary Support: 21.3 x 20.5 cm (8 3/8 x 8 1/16 in.)

The Norweb Collection 1954.692

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower center, in graphite: Mariette's [colln?] [crossed out] / circular mark - Lugt No. 2925 / unidentified.

Provenance
unidentified collector's mark (Lugt 2925, lower right, in black ink). Valentine
Exhibition history

CMA, Concept, Dogma, and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650 (Aug. 27-Oct. 20, 1991).

[did not find a registrarial file for this one, Feb. 1996]-?

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

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1954.692