id: 145159 accession number: 1970.33 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.33 updated: 2023-03-29 11:09:59.512000 The Jewish Boy, c. 1892. Medardo Rosso (Italian, 1859–1928). Wax on plaster; overall: 23.2 x 18.1 x 14.9 cm (9 1/8 x 7 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1970.33 title: The Jewish Boy title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1892 creation date earliest: 1892 creation date latest: 1893 current location: 222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 19th century technique: wax on plaster department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960 type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Medardo Rosso (Italian, 1859–1928) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 23.2 x 18.1 x 14.9 cm (9 1/8 x 7 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscribed on left shoulder: "Bolgé/(M.?) Rosso."; inscribed inside: Danila Rosso Parravicini. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Rosso Family, Barzio, Italy date: footnotes: citations: (Lords Gallery, Ltd., London, United Kingdom, 1970, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1970 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1970- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Like the Impressionist painters of his time, Rosso sought to capture the fleeting and ephemeral qualities of light. However, he did not work directly from nature. His images were created from memory and emotion. digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hawley, Henry H. "Sculptures by Jules Danlou, Henry Cros, and Medardo Rosso," The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LVIII, no 9 (September, 1971):199-209 page number: Reproduced: on cover url: Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1970." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 2 (1971): 22-71. page number: Referenced: cat no. 9, Reproduced: p. 42 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152361. Cleveland Museum of Art, Gabriel P. Weisberg, and H. W. Janson. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975. page number: Referenced: cat. no. 61 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. 217 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n237 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.33/1970.33_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.33/1970.33_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.33/1970.33_full.tif