id:			97156
accession number:	1916.794
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.794
updated:		2025-07-11 11:16:15.880000

Portrait of an Old Man, mid-1500s. Attributed to Giulio Campi (Italian, c. 1500–1572). Oil on wood; framed: 120.7 x 91.4 x 11.4 cm (47 1/2 x 36 x 4 1/2 in.); unframed: 92.4 x 63.5 cm (36 3/8 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.794

title:				Portrait of an Old Man
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creation date:			mid-1500s
creation date earliest:		1525
creation date latest:		1575
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creditline:			Holden Collection
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culture:	Italy, 16th century
technique:	oil on wood
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Giulio Campi (Italian, c. 1500–1572)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 120.7 x 91.4 x 11.4 cm (47 1/2 x 36 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 92.4 x 63.5 cm (36 3/8 x 25 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Inaugural Exhibition
	opening date:   1916-06-06T05:00:00
	<i>Inaugural Exhibition</i>. 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
	<i>The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Boston, 1883. American Exhibition of Foregin Products, Arts, and Maufctures: Art Department, "Jarves Collection," cat. no. 426.', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'The Cleveland Art Loan Exhibition, Jan. 1884, no. 13', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'CMA: The Inaugural Exhibition, cat. no. 39, (as Venetian School, 16th century...very much in the manner of Tintoretto), 1916&#9;', 'opening_date': '1916-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, no. 79 (as Giulio Campi?), 1936', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Gino Capponi Gallery (Florence, Italy)
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	James Jackson Jarves
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	Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, 1883, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p 315; Mentioned: p. 314
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	Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. <em>Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 36, cat. no. 39
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n46

	Moro, Franco and Filippo Maria Ferro. <em>Caravaggio sconosciuto: le origini del Merisi, eccellente disegnatore, maestro di ritratti e di cose naturali</em>. Torino : Umberto Allemandi, 2016.
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	Cifani, Arabella. "Un Esploratore Solitario nei Territori Ignoti di Caravaggio." <em>Il giornale dell'arte</em> 34, no.370 (December 2016).
	page number: 	Mentioned: 23-[25]; Reproduced: p. [25], top row, last image
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