id:			116653
accession number:	1937.24.a
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.24.a
updated:		2023-03-07 15:13:22.205000

Bust of a Woman (recto), c. 1458. Benozzo Gozzoli (Italian, 1420–1497). Metalpoint with point of brush and brown ink heightened with white gouache; sheet: 20.6 x 14.9 cm (8 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.); secondary support: 24.9 x 20.8 cm (9 13/16 x 8 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1937.24.a

title:				Bust of a Woman (recto)
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creation date:			c. 1458
creation date earliest:		1453
creation date latest:		1463
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Italy, 15th century
technique:	metalpoint with point of brush and brown ink heightened with white gouache
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Italian
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Benozzo Gozzoli (Italian, 1420–1497)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 20.6 x 14.9 cm (8 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 24.9 x 20.8 cm (9 13/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
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	description:	laid paper prepared with a rose ground, perimeter mounted to beige-yellow wove paper
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, Artists' Working Books (Nov. 5, 1991-Jan. 12, 1992).<br>CMA, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum (June 7-Sep. 8, 1991.<br>CMA, Treasures on Paper (May 10-July 24, 1988).<br>CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).<br>Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum; University of Pittsburgh Gallery of Art; Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Italian Portrait Drawings, 1400-1800, from North American Collections (Oct. 6-Dec. 18, 1983; Jan. 20-Feb. 26, 1984; Apr. 3-29, 1984), no. 1, illus. recto and verso.<br>CMA, Master Drawings with the von Hirsch Acquisitions (Sep.-Nov. 1978).<br>CMA, Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage (July 13-Sep. 19, 1971), no. 52, illus. recto and verso.<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 9, 1967-Jan. 21, 1968).<br>CMA, Old Master Prints and Drawings (July 29, 1966-Apr. 1, 1967).<br>CMA, Old Master Drawings (Mar. 10-30, 1964).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Sep. 10, 1963).<br>CMA, Aspects of Drawing (Jan. 10-Apr. 2, 1961).<br>Detroit Institute of Arts, Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance (Apr. 5-May 8, 1960), no. 3, illus. p. 26 verso.<br>CMA, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition (Mar. 3, 1958-Oct. 11, 1959).<br>CMA, Classic to Baroque (Sep. 30- Nov. 7, 1949).<br>CMA (removed gallery III Sep. 28, 1949).<br>CMA (moved gallery V to Gallery III July 1, 1948).<br>CMA (hung Recent Accessions room Mar. 16, 1943).<br>CMA (hung armor court Oct. 27, 1941).<br>CMA, Silver Jubilee Exhibition (June 23-Oct. 5, 1941).<br>CMA (hung June 12, 1940).<br>CMA (Mar. 12-Apr. 21, 1940).<br>CMA (hung June 14, 1939).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 4-Mar. 26, 1939).<br>CMA, "Inaugural Exhibition in Gallery XVI" (installed June 22, 1938; ran Aug. 10-Nov. 13, 1938).<br>CMA (Oct. 6, 1937-June 22, 1938).<br>London, Thomas Agnew and Sons (1937).<br>CMA, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition (June 26-Oct. 4, 1936), no. 129.<br>Leipzig, C. G. Boerner, Handzeichnungen des XV bis XVIII Jahrhunderts (May 9-10, 1930), no. 167, illus. recto frontispiece.<br>Stuttgart, Katalog der kostbaren und altberümpten Kupferstich-Sammlung des Marchese Jacopo Durazzo in Genoa (1872), no. 3914.

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