id: 125816 accession number: 1947.70 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.70 updated: 2025-06-04 11:05:57.347000 The Funeral of Saint Stephen, c. 1460. Fra Filippo Lippi (Italian, c. 1406–1469). Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash with traces of stylus over traces of black chalk; sheet: 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.); secondary support: 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1947.70 title: The Funeral of Saint Stephen title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1460 creation date earliest: 1455 creation date latest: 1465 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Florence, 15th century technique: pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash with traces of stylus over traces of black chalk department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Fra Filippo Lippi (Italian, c. 1406–1469) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid paper, lined with cream(3) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: verso of secondary support, center, in brown ink: Pordonone Fece translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries opening date: 1960-05-18T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960). title: Paintings by Old Masters opening date: 1960-06-15T04:00:00 Paintings by Old Masters. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. (organizer) (June 15-July 16, 1960). title: The Renaissance Image of Man and the World opening date: 1961-10-27T04:00:00 The Renaissance Image of Man and the World. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 27, 1961). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Old Master Drawings opening date: 1964-03-10T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964). title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). title: Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions opening date: 1978-09-15T04:00:00 Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 15-December 4, 1978). title: Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1986-12-16T05:00:00 Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987). title: Treasures on Paper opening date: 1988-05-10T04:00:00 Treasures on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988). title: The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle opening date: 1997-10-27T00:00:00 The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (October 27, 1997-January 11, 1998). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Michelangelo: Mind of the Master opening date: 2019-09-22T04:00:00 Michelangelo: Mind of the Master. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22, 2019-January 5, 2020). title: Botticelli: The Drawings opening date: 2023-11-18T05:00:00 Botticelli: The Drawings. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (November 18, 2023-February 11, 2024) https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/botticelli-drawings. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Possibly Giorgio Vasari, Arezzo date: footnotes: citations: Paul Oswald, Locarno date: footnotes: citations: Carl O. Schniewind, Zurich and Chicago date: 1922 (?) footnotes: citations: possibly Ludwig Rosenthal, Bern and Munich date: ca. 1936 footnotes: *
According to a letter in the CMA object file to Henry Francis from Dr. F. A. Drey, Ludwig Rosenthal, of Berne and (from 1936) Montreal, owned the drawing, but Ludwig Rosenthal did not recognize the drawing as one that he had owned when he visited the Cleveland Museum of Art on 22 June 1967. 
citations: with Dr. F. A. Drey, Munich date: ca. 1936 footnotes: citations: with P & D Colnaghi, London date: 1936 footnotes: citations: Colonel Norman Colville, London date: footnotes: citations: with P & D Colnaghi, London date: footnotes: citations: with Dr. August Maria Klipstein (1885-1951), Bern date: ca. 1947 footnotes: citations: with Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY. date: 1947 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Francis, Henry. "A Fifteenth Century Drawing." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35, no. 2 (February 1948): 15-18.

Attributed to Domenico Ghirlandaio page number: Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned: p. 15 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141432 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. 569 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n106 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. 79 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n103 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. 78 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n102 Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. 1971. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 51 url: Ragghianti Collobi, Licia. Il "Libro de' disegni" ed i ritratti per le "Vite" del Vasari, Critica D'arte 18 (March-April 1972): pp. 13-40. page number: p. 18. url: Ragghianti Collobi, Licia. Il Libro de' disegni del Vasari. Vols. 1-2. Firenze: Vallecchi, 1974. page number: Vol. 1, p. 60 url: Borsook, Eve, β€œFra Filippo Lippi and the Murals for Prato Cathedral.” Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 19 (1): 1975: pp. 1-148 page number: 23-24, fig. 31 url: 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. 90 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n110 Meder, Joseph, and Winslow Ames. The mastery of drawing. Vols. 1-2. New York, N.Y.: Abaris Books, 1978. page number: Vol 1, pp. 31, 426; Vol. 2, fig. 16 url: Cadogan, Jean K. Maestri toscani del Quattrocento: Lorenzo Monaco, Ghiberti, Paolo Uccello, Filippo Lippi, Pesellino, Andrea del Castagno, Ghirlandaio, Bartolomeo di Giovanni, Benozzo Gozzoli, etc. Firenze. Vol. 17 Biblioteca di Disegni, Istituto Alinari, 1980. page number: 25-26 url: Ruda, Jeffrey. Filippo Lippi Studies: Naturalism, Style, and Iconography in Early Renaissance Art. New York: Garland Pub, 1982. page number: 152-154, 164-165, fig. 81 url: Miller, Michael. "A Michelangelo Drawing." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 5 (1990): 146-74. page number: Reproduced: p. 158; Mentioned: p. 158, 173 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161284 Ruda, Jeffrey, and Filippo Lippi. Fra Filippo Lippi: Life and Work with a Complete Catalogue. London: Phaidon Press, 1993. page number: pp. 342-346, plate 93 url: Olszewski, Edward J. and Burton L. Dunbar. Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus. Vol 1. The Early Works. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. page number: 18-25, no. 4 url: Roettgen, Steffi, Antonio Quattrone, and Russell Stockman. Italian Frescoes. New York : Abbeville Press, 1996. page number: 305-306, fig. 77 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 2, p. 7, pp. 22-23, p. 283; Reproduced: p. 23 url: Biondi, Lucia. "Fantasia e Disciplina": Le Contraddizioni nella Pittura di Filippo Lippi emerse nel Restauro dell'Annunciazione Martelli e il Confronto con le Opere degli Anni Quaranta Quattrocento." In Intorno all'Annunciazione Martelli di Filippo Lippi, riflessioni dopo il restauro., 92-116. Monica Bietti, editor. Firenze: Mandragora, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 109, fig. 20 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.70/1947.70_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.70/1947.70_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.70/1947.70_full.tif