id: 135407 accession number: 1958.411 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.411 updated: 2024-04-25 17:02:31.701000 Saint Sebastian, c. 1493. Perugino (Italian, c. 1450/55–1523). Metalpoint; sheet: 25.6 x 14.6 cm (10 1/16 x 5 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1958.411 title: Saint Sebastian title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1493 creation date earliest: 1488 creation date latest: 1498 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 15th century technique: metalpoint department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Perugino (Italian, c. 1450/55–1523) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 25.6 x 14.6 cm (10 1/16 x 5 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: laid paper prepared with gray ground, lined with beige(1) laid paper (with additional residual layers partially removed) watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: 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: 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: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00 Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980). title: Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions opening date: 1980-10-21T04:00:00 Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981). title: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). 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: Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissance opening date: 1997-11-16T00:00:00 Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissance. Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI (organizer) (November 16, 1997-February 1, 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Possibly Comte Josef von Fries, Vienna date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Comte Moriz von Fries, Vienna, 1777-1826 (Lugt 2903) date: around 1820? footnotes: citations: Possibly A. Ritter von Franck, Vienna, 1808-1884 (his sale, 4-5 December, 1889) date: 1889 footnotes: citations: Princes of Liechtenstein, Vaduz date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Private collection, London date: ?-1958 footnotes: citations: with Herbert N. Bier, London date: 1958 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1958- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Marle, Raimond van, and Charlotte van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1923. page number: vol 14, pp. 396, 538 url: Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 10 (1959): 210-31. page number: Mentioned: pp. 231-32; Reproduced: p. 232 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142366. "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, July-September, 1959," Art Quarterly XXII, no. 4 (Winter, 1959): pp. 385-394. page number: Mentioned: p. 296 url: Moskowitz, Ira, and Victoria Thorson. Great Drawings of All Time. New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1962. page number: vol 1, no. 241 url: Richards, Louise S. "Three Early Italian Drawings." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 7 (1962): 167-74. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 170-72 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151904. Cleveland Museum of Art, “Two Italian Drawings,” August 20, 1962, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0993 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. 83 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n107 Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 123 url: 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. 83 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n107 L'opera Completa Del Perugino; Presentazione Di Carlo Castellaneta; Apparati Critici E Filologici Di Ettore Camesasca. Milan: Rizzoli, 1969. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 124 url: Aymar, Brandt. The Young Male Figure: In Paintings, Sculptures, and Drawings, from Ancient Egypt to the Present. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 56 url: Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. 1971. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 53 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. 95 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n115 Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 33-35, fig. 28 url: Scarpellini, Pietro. Perugino. Milano: Electa, 1984. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 87 url: Dunbar, Burton L., and Edward J. Olszewski. Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus. Vol 1. The Early Works. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 17, pp. 84-90 url: Becherer, Joseph Antenucci, and Katherine R. Smith Abbott. Pietro Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissance. New York: Rizzoli International, 1997. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 4, pp. 149-151, pp. 240-43 url: DeGrazia, Diane 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. 3, pp. 24-25, p. 283; Reproduced: p. 25 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.411/1958.411_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.411/1958.411_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.411/1958.411_full.tif