id:			329329
accession number:	2019.9
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.9
updated:		2024-03-26 02:41:40.850000

Convolvulus and Metamorphosis of the Convolvulus Hawk Moth, c. 1670–83. Maria Sibylla Merian (German, active Netherlands, 1647–1717). Watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor over indications in black chalk or graphite on vellum; sheet: 29 x 37.2 cm (11 7/16 x 14 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2019.9

title:				Convolvulus and Metamorphosis of the Convolvulus Hawk Moth
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creation date:			c. 1670–83
creation date earliest:		1665
creation date latest:		1688
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Netherlands
technique:	watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor over indications in black chalk or graphite on vellum
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Swiss
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Maria Sibylla Merian (German, active Netherlands, 1647–1717)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 29 x 37.2 cm (11 7/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
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	inscription:	recto, signed, lower right in brown ink: M. Sybilla Merian
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	inscription:	inscribed lower right above signature in graphite: No 61 and lower left in graphite A
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	inscription:	on mount, brown ink, Surinamse Liguster pylstaart Uyl met de Rups en sop and No. 45. A. and Sibilla Merian fecit 1670.
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	inscription:	on mount, underneath sheet, inscribed, brown ink, Sibilla Merian fe.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800
	opening date:   2023-10-01T04:00:00
	<i>Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800</i>. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (co-organizer) (October 1, 2023-January 7, 2024) https://artbma.org/exhibition/making-her-mark-a-history-of-women-artists-in-europe-1400-1800; Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (co-organizer) (March 27-July 1, 2024) https://ago.ca/exhibitions/making-her-mark-history-women-artists-europe-1400-1800.

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Sotheby's, London, England
	date: July 7, 1999
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	Private Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
	date: 1999-2019
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 4, 2019
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Reitsma, Ella, and Sandrine A. Ulenberg. Maria Sibylla Merian &amp; Daughters: Women of Art and Science. Amsterdam: Rembrandt House Museum, 2008.
	page number: 	p. 110-11
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	Peters, Emily. “Acquisitions 2019: Drawings.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 20-21.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 20.
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	Griswold, William M. “Recent Acquisitions (2013-20) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>Burlington Magazine </em>163, no. 1414 (January 2021): 93-104.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 96, no. 6
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	Banta, Andaleeb Badiee, Alexa Greist, and Theresa Kutasz Christensen. <em>Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800</em>. Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions ; Toronto, Ontario : AGO ; Baltimore, Maryland : Baltimore Museum of Art, 2023.
	page number: 	Mentioned, pp. 111, 227, illus. (detail), p. 111, fig. 9, cat. 167, p. 230, illus., p. 230.
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IMAGES

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