id:			112863
accession number:	1931.454
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.454
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:19.861000

Head of a Boy, c. 1460. Italy, Florence, 15th century. Marble; overall: 23.6 x 19.7 x 3.9 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/4 x 1 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1931.454

title:				Head of a Boy
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creation date:			c. 1460
creation date earliest:		1455
creation date latest:		1465
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Italy, Florence, 15th century
technique:	marble
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 23.6 x 19.7 x 3.9 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/4 x 1 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
	opening date:   1941-06-23T04:00:00
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

	title:		Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage
	opening date:   1971-07-13T04:00:00
	<i>Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Eugène Piot, 1812-1890
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	Charles Timbal, 1821-1880 (Paris, France), sold to Gustave Dreyfus, 1871.
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	Gustave Dreyfus, 1837-1914 (Paris, France), upon his death, probably by inheritance to his heirs.
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	Heirs of Gustave Dreyfus, probably sold to Duveen Brothers, Inc., 1930.
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	Duveen Brothers, Inc. (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1931.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Duveen, Joseph and Clarence Kennedy. <em>Dreyfus Collection Sculpture</em>. Florence: MST [i.e. Tyszkiewicz], 1930.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat no. XXXIV
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	Duveen Brothers. <em>Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America; A Catalogue Raisonné with Illustrations of Italian Renaissance, Sculptures by the Great Masters, Which Have Passed Through the House of Duveen</em>. New York: William Bradford Press, 1944.
	page number: 	Reproduced and mentioned: cat. no. 19
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 208
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n47

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 79
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n103

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 79
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n103

	Pillsbury, Edmund P. <em>Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage.</em> 1971.
	page number: 	Reproduced and mentioned: cat. no. 25
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 90
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n110

	Legé, Alice Silvia. Gustave Dreyfus: <em>Collectionneur et Mécène dans le Paris de la Belle Époque.</em> Milan: Officina libraria, 2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 79; Reproduced: p. 133, fig. 50
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