id: 97155 accession number: 1916.793 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.793 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:19.965000 Portrait of a Couple, c. 1580–88. Northern Italy, late 16th century. Oil on canvas; framed: 132 x 173 x 10.5 cm (51 15/16 x 68 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.); unframed: 99.8 x 140.5 cm (39 5/16 x 55 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.793 title: Portrait of a Couple title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1580–88 creation date earliest: 1580 creation date latest: 1588 current location: 118 Italian Renaissance creditline: Holden Collection copyright: --- culture: Northern Italy, late 16th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Framed: 132 x 173 x 10.5 cm (51 15/16 x 68 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.); Unframed: 99.8 x 140.5 cm (39 5/16 x 55 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscribed upper left: AETA, SVAE, ANNO. XXXV, upper right: AETA. SVAE. ANNO. XXVIII translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). title: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00 Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Boston, 1883: American Exhibition of Foregin Products, Arts, and Manufactures: Art Department, "Jarves Collection,\' pp. 20-22. (A Checklist of the collection exhibited by James Jackson Jarves at the Boston exposition; the collection was viewed and subsequently purchased, in toto, by Mr and Mrs L. E. Holden of Cleveland.)', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1912: "Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection," catalogue: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. vIII, no. 10 (October 1912), pp. 174-183; author Bryson Burroughs.)', 'opening_date': '1912-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, 1916: "The Inaugural Exhibition of CMA," cat. no. 27.', 'opening_date': '1916-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Denver Art Museum, March1-April 30, 1956: "Clothers Make the Man," repr. p. 13 in catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1956-04-30T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, 1962: "Art and Humanism in the Renaissance," (no catalogue).', 'opening_date': '1962-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE James Jackson Jarves (1884). date: footnotes: citations: Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. page number: Mentioned: p. 29, cat. no. 28; Reproduced: p. 60, No. 28 url: https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n39 G. U. "The Holden Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34. page number: Mentioned: pp. 19, 20; reproduced: p. 35 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136067 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: 25 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n27 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 29 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n33 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 411 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n75 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 96 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n120 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 96 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n120 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 113 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n133 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 458; Mentioned: p. 459-460 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.793/1916.793_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.793/1916.793_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.793/1916.793_full.tif