id: 159483 accession number: 1996.257 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.257 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:30.712000 Study for the Head of St. Michael, 1633. Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596–1669). Black chalk; sheet: 19 x 16.8 cm (7 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.); secondary support: 31.9 x 27.6 cm (12 9/16 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1996.257 title: Study for the Head of St. Michael title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1633 creation date earliest: 1633 creation date latest: 1633 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 17th century technique: black chalk department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596–1669) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 19 x 16.8 cm (7 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 31.9 x 27.6 cm (12 9/16 x 10 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid paper, perimeter mounted to cream(3) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 * {'description': 'Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Roberto Ferretti. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (October 26, 1985 - January 5, 1986); The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (February 14 - April 20, 1986).', 'opening_date': '1986-02-14T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 28 March 1979, no. 173a (as Francesco Romanelli in catalogue, attribution changed to Pietro da Cortona by date of sale). date: 1979 footnotes: citations: Duke Roberto Ferretti di Castelferretto, London. date: 1979?-1996 footnotes: citations: his sale, Christie's, London, 2 July 1996, no. 47. date: 1996 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1996- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Merz, Jörg Martin. Pietro da Cortona: Der Aufstieg zum führenden Maler im barocken Rom. Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth, 1991. page number: Mentioned: p. 234, note 215; Reproduced: n. 366 url: Russell, Francis. "Salesroom Discovery: A Study by Pietro da Cortona." The Burlington Magazine 121, no. 915 (June 1979): 405-406. page number: Mentioned: p. 405; Reproduced: p. 406, n. 98 url: McTavish, David. Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Roberto Ferretti. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1985. page number: Mentioned: p. 76, under n. 32; Reproduced: p. 77 url: Merz, Jörg Martin. "I disegni di Pietro da Cortona per gli affreschi nella Chiesa Nuova a Roma." Bollettino d'Arte 86-87 (July-October 1994): 37-76. page number: Mentioned: pp. 38-39; Reproduced: p. 39, n. 2 url: Rodrigues, Terence, edited. Christie's Review of the Year. London: Christie's, 1996. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 31 url: CMA Annual Report (1996) page number: Mentioned: pp. 28 and 47; Reproduced: p. 38 url: "International Auction Review." Drawing 18, no. 2 (Fall 1996): 60-61. page number: Mentioned: p. 60; Reproduced: p. 61 url: "International Auction Review." On Paper 1, no. 1 (September-October 1996): 44-47. page number: Reproduced: p. 45 url: "Adjugé." L'objet d'art 307 (November 1996): 22-23. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 22 url: Russell, Francis. "The Ferretti Collection." Christie's International Magazine 13, no. 5 (June 1996): 22-23. page number: Mentioned: pp. 22-23; Reproduced: p. 23 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Rare Korean Screen Painting, Important Baroque Drawing, Sheeler Drawing Join the Museum Collection,” October 10, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4074 "Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1996." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 139 (March 1997): 3-98. page number: Reproduced: p. 60, n. 230 url: Foster, Carter E. "The Head of an Angel." CMA Bulletin (March 1997): 7. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 7 url: Foster, Carter E., "The Head of an Angel" Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 37 no. 03, March 1997 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p.7 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1997-03/page/6 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. 11, 52-53, 285; Reproduced: p. 53, n. 16 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.257/1996.257_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.257/1996.257_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.257/1996.257_full.tif