id:			116654
accession number:	1937.24.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.24.b
updated:		2025-09-13 18:21:46.145000

Head of a Man, Two Studies of a Woman's Profile, and a Study of An Angel (verso), c. 1458. Benozzo Gozzoli (Italian, 1420–1497). Metalpoint with point of  brush and brown wash, brush and brown wash,  and stylus, 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.b

title:				Head of a Man, Two Studies of a Woman's Profile, and a Study of An Angel (verso)
title in original language:	
series:				
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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
copyright:			

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culture:	Italy, 15th century
technique:	metalpoint with point of  brush and brown wash, brush and brown wash,  and stylus, heightened with white gouache
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Italian
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: 

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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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support materials:

	description:	laid paper prepared with a rose ground, perimeter mounted to beige-yellow wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	upper right, in brown ink: [42?] [partially masked] ; lower left, in brown ink: 48
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Old Master Drawings
	opening date:   1964-03-10T05:00:00
	<i>Old Master Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964).

	title:		Old Master Prints and Drawings
	opening date:   1966-07-29T04:00:00
	<i>Old Master Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	K. E. Hasse (Lugt 860, stamp, lower left, in blue ink)
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Francis, Henry. "A Fifteenth-Century Drawing Close to the Style of Benozzo Gozzoli." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>24, no. 8 (October 1937): 123-125
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 122; Mentioned: p. 124-125
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137866

	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. 568
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n106

	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. 78
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n102

	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. 78
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n102

	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

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IMAGES

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