id: 125816
accession number: 1947.70
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The Funeral of Saint Stephen, c. 1460. 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
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creation date: c. 1460
creation date earliest: 1455
creation date latest: 1465
current location:
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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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
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CREATORS
* Filippo Lippi (Italian, c. 1406-1469) - artist
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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.)
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support materials:
description: beige(1) laid paper, lined with cream(3) laid paper
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inscriptions:
inscription: verso of secondary support, center, in brown ink: Pordonone Fece
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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 (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 10-30, 1964).
title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage
opening date: 1971-10-29T04:00:00
Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 1971-January 2, 1972).
title: Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection
opening date: 1986-12-15T05:00:00
Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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Few drawings exist from the mid-1400s in Italy, and most that have are figure and drapery studies from artist's model books. So this sheet is extremely important as one of the few known compositional studies by a major artist from this period. Stylistic comparison to other drawings by Lippi and the fact that it relates to a fresco painting by him of the same subject confirms its authenticity.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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
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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
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
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
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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
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IMAGES
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