id: 144846 accession number: 1969.70 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.70 updated: 2025-02-09 03:28:40.859000 Cupid Drawing His Bow, c. 1560s. Federico Barocci (Italian, 1528–1612). Black chalk with pastel (stumped in places), heightened with white chalk, squared with black chalk; framing lines in graphite; sheet: 42.4 x 27.2 cm (16 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen and Delia E. Holden Funds 1969.70 title: Cupid Drawing His Bow title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1560s creation date earliest: 1560 creation date latest: 1569 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen and Delia E. Holden Funds copyright: --- culture: Italy, 16th century technique: black chalk with pastel (stumped in places), heightened with white chalk, squared with black chalk; framing lines in graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Federico Barocci (Italian, 1528–1612) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 42.4 x 27.2 cm (16 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: gray-green laid paper, laid down on cream(3) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: lower left, in brown ink: [illegible]; verso, upper left, in graphite: 4 [circled]; upper center left, incised: adamid[i?] bl / hotel f[o?] / Chateau Front[as?] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1969 opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). title: Italian Drawings Selected From Mid-Western Collections opening date: 1972-02-25T05:00:00 Italian Drawings Selected From Mid-Western Collections. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (organizer) (February 25-April 16, 1972). title: The Graphic Art of Frederico Barocci opening date: 1978-02-15T05:00:00 The Graphic Art of Frederico Barocci. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 15-March 25, 1978). title: The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci opening date: 1978-02-15T05:00:00 The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 15-March 26, 1978). title: The Graphic Art of Frederico Barocci opening date: 1978-02-15T05:00:00 The Graphic Art of Frederico Barocci. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (April 15-June 4, 1978). title: The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles opening date: 1979-03-06T05:00:00 The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979). 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: Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650 opening date: 1991-08-27T04:00:00 Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Giuseppe Vallardi (1784-1863), Milan (Lugt 1223) date: before 1858 footnotes: citations: A. Mouriau (active ca. 1800-1860), Belgium (Lugt 1853 [see Lugt 1829]) date: ?-1858 footnotes: citations: his sale, Paris, 11 March 1858, no. 21. date: footnotes: citations: Unidentified collector, stamp not in Lugt. date: footnotes: citations: with Nathan Chaikin (b. 1887), Vaud, Switzerland. date: 1969 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1969- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Year in Review 1969." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 1 (January 1970). page number: Mentioned: p.48, under n. 155 url: Neilson, Nancy Ward. Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections. St. Louis, MO: The St. Louis Art Museum, 1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 31, under n. 8; Reproduced: p. 32 url: Pillsbury, Edmund P., and Louise S. Richards. The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci: Selected Drawings and Prints. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1978. page number: Mentioned: pp. 38-40, under n. 11; Reproduced: p. 39 url: Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Mentioned: pp. 17-18, 55, 60-61, under n. 33; Reproduced: p. 60, n. 33 url: Miller, Michael. Drawing: A Glossary of Materials: Selections from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987. page number: Reproduced: p. 14 url: McCullagh, Suzanne Folds. "Serendipity in a Solander Box: A Recently Discovered Pastel and Chalk Drawing by Federico Barocci." Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17, no. 1 (1991): 52-65 + 93-94. page number: Mentioned: pp. 62 and 65 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4101549 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: pp. 38-39 and 284; Reproduced: p. 39, n. 9 url: Emiliani, Andrea. Federico Barocci (Urbino, 1535-1612), vol. 1. Ancona, Italy: Ars Books, 2008. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 114, n. 7.5 url: Olszewski, Edward J., edited. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepos Publishers, 2008. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 32, n. 28 url: Baroni, Luca. "Getting to Color: Early Pastel Drawings by Federico Barocci," Master Drawings v 62 / n 2 (Summer 2024): 167-178. page number: 171, 173, fig. 9 url: Baroni, Luca. "Getting to Color: Early Pastel Drawings by Frederico Barocci." Master Drawings 62, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 167-178. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 171, 173, fig. 9 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.70/1969.70_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.70/1969.70_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.70/1969.70_full.tif