id: 133787 accession number: 1956.39 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.39 updated: 2025-02-09 02:12:35.910000 Saint Christopher, c. 1500. Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431–1506). Pen and brown ink and blue gouache with brush and green wash and traces of orange gouache, heightened with white gouache; sheet: 28.6 x 17.4 cm (11 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.); secondary support: 28.7 x 17.6 cm (11 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1956.39 title: Saint Christopher title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500 creation date earliest: 1495 creation date latest: 1505 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, late 15th-early 16th Century technique: pen and brown ink and blue gouache with brush and green wash and traces of orange gouache, heightened with white gouache department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431–1506) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 28.6 x 17.4 cm (11 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 28.7 x 17.6 cm (11 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid(?) paper, laid down on beige(1) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: upper left, in brown ink: di propria mano di / mi[o?] andrea matenga ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, across top, in red-brown pencil: [illegible] / [illegible] ; RECTO OF OLD MOUNT(now removed), upper right, in brown ink: 16. 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: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance opening date: 1960-04-05T05:00:00 Italian Drawings of the Renaissance. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (April 5-May 8, 1960). title: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00 Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962). 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: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). title: Old Master Prints and Drawings opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00 Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1967-06-09T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968). title: Italian Prints and Drawings opening date: 1968-01-30T05:00:00 Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 26, 1968). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Apr. 27, 1972-Feb. 2, 1973).', 'opening_date': '1972-04-27T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; Mar. 16, 1971- (Gallery F remained open)).', 'opening_date': '1970-12-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Sep. 19-Nov. 5, 1962).', 'opening_date': '1962-09-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 7-Apr. 26, 1962).', 'opening_date': '1962-03-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Detroit Institute of Arts, Italian Drawings of the Renaissance (Apr. 5-May 8, 1960), no. 14, illus. p. 29.', 'opening_date': '1960-04-05T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Conte Lodovico Moscardo, Verona (according to departmental card); Marquis of Calceolari (according to letters from Fritz Lugt and F. Matthiesen in file). [Francis Matthiesen, London] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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. 567 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. 87 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n111 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. 87 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n111 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. 99 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n119 Karet, Evelyn. The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. page number: Mentioned: pp. 79-81, 101; reproduced: p. 81, fig. 3.14 url: Windows, Peter. "The Attributional Inscriptions in the Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings." Master Drawings, 56, no.4 (Winter 2018): 443-462. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 445, figs. 5-6 url: Windows, Peter. "The Attributional Inscriptions in the Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings." Master Drawings 56, no. 4 (Winter 2018): 443-462 page number: Mentioned and reproduced; p.445, fig. 5-6 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.39/1956.39_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.39/1956.39_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.39/1956.39_full.tif