id:			132136
accession number:	1954.688
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.688
updated:		2025-09-09 11:31:26.116000

Bacchanal, mid–1600s. Circle of Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596–1669). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache; incised, framing lines in brown ink over traces of black chalk; sheet: 26.3 x 43.5 cm (10 3/8 x 17 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1954.688

title:				Bacchanal
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creation date:			mid–1600s
creation date earliest:		1650
creation date latest:		1669
current location:		101A Prints & Drawings
creditline:			The Norweb Collection
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culture:	Italy, 17th century
technique:	pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache; incised, framing lines in brown ink over traces of black chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Italian
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596–1669)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 26.3 x 43.5 cm (10 3/8 x 17 1/8 in.)
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	description:	light brown laid paper, laid down on cream(3) laid paper; embossed gold paper strips mounted to perimeter
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper center, in graphite: 22 [underlined] , lower left, in brown ink: 15.t [crossed out in graphite] ; lower right, in graphite: Copy after Pal. Barberini  ? / J. Sch / c f  Ciro Ferri   FR ; lower right, in graphite: P.da Cortona
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection
	opening date:   1986-12-16T05:00:00
	<i>Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).

	title:		Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection
	opening date:   1990-08-07T04:00:00
	<i>Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

	title:		Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650
	opening date:   1991-08-27T04:00:00
	<i>Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).

	title:		In Vino Veritas (In Wine, Truth)
	opening date:   2025-09-07T04:00:00
	<i>In Vino Veritas (In Wine, Truth)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2025-January 11, 2026).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Preview of Outstanding Recent Accessions. </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 3, 1955).', 'opening_date': '1955-04-03T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Emery May Holden Norweb (Mrs. R. Henry Norweb) [1895–1984], Cleveland, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: ?–1954
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 4, 1954–
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