Ceres
16th century
Lelio Orsi
Lelio Orsi (Italian, 1511–1587)
Drawings
Ceres, 16th century. Lelio Orsi (Italian, 1511–1587). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash; incised, squared in black chalk, framing lines in graphite (left and bottom); sheet: 25.6 x 18.7 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 in.); secondary support: 29.3 x 22 cm (11 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries 1939.655
- Maker/Artist
- Orsi, Lelio
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash; incised, squared in black chalk, framing lines in graphite (left and bottom)
- Medium
- pen, brown, ink, brush, wash, incised, squared, black, chalk, framing, lines, graphite, left, bottom
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.6 x 18.7 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 in.); Secondary Support: 29.3 x 22 cm (11 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: RECTO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper left, in brown ink: [del?] cat 63 ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower center, in brown ink (on separately applied piece of paper): nta tre[illegible] [cropped at beginning and end of inscription] ; upper center, in blue pencil: # 53 ; upper right, in blue pencil: 20 ºº ; center, in graphite: 88 [circled] ; lower left, in graphite: [illegible] 63 . [sideways]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1939.655
- Credit Line
- Gift of Robert Hays Gries
- Exhibitions
- Drawings by Old Italian Masters, Drawings, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection, CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).<br>CMA, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions (Oct. 21, 1980-Feb. 15, 1981).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; Mar. 16, 1971- (Gallery F remained open)).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 20-Apr. 26, 1948).<br>CMA, Drawings by Old Italian Masters from the Collection (June 5, 1940-Feb. 25, 1941).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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