id:			131585
accession number:	1954.2.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.2.b
updated:		2023-11-29 17:49:02.097000

Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus (verso), c. 1637–38. Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640). Pen and brown ink, with black and red chalk; sheet: 27.2 x 47.2 cm (10 11/16 x 18 9/16 in.); secondary support: 27.6 x 47.3 cm (10 7/8 x 18 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1954.2.b

title:				Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus (verso)
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creation date:			c. 1637–38
creation date earliest:		1637
creation date latest:		1638
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creditline:			Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
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culture:	Flanders
technique:	pen and brown ink, with black and red chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Flemish
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 27.2 x 47.2 cm (10 11/16 x 18 9/16 in.); Secondary Support: 27.6 x 47.3 cm (10 7/8 x 18 5/8 in.)
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	description:	beige(2) laid paper, perimeter mounted to a false margin of beige(1) wove paper
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	inscription:	by artist, center, in brown ink: plus spatij
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cambridge/New York 1956, 25-26, no. 26, pl. 26; Antwerp 1956, 107-8, no. 131, pl. 59; Cleveland 1980, 29-32; Wellesley/Cleveland 1993-94, 203-5, no. 58.

* The Cleveland Museum of Art (8/27/00 - 10/17/00); NY, NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library (5/24/01- 8/19/01); Museum of Fine Arts Houston (10/14/01 - 1/6/02); "Master Drawings from The Cleveland Museum of Art", exh. cat. no. 71, pp.174-175; p.294.

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PROVENANCE

	Unidentified collector (Lugt 622, verso, lower right, in black ink, probably Austrian collection c. 1800); English private collection (According to Burchard and d'Hulst, Antwerp, 1956); [Herbert N. Bier].  Purchased by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1954.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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. 587
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n110

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 174-75, 294; Reproduced: P. 175, cat. no. 71
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