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    "localId": "139694",
    "label": "The Virgin and Child",
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    "id": "139694",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "The Virgin and Child",
    "date": "c. 1510",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.472",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.472/1963.472_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 14.5 x 9.4 cm (5 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.); Secondary Support: 14.5 x 9.4 cm (5 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, 16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1963.472"
}

{
    "tec": "metalpoint, (losses on left sleeve of the Madonna restored in pen and brown ink?); framing lines in black and brown ink",
    "tombstone": "The Virgin and Child, c. 1510. Lorenzo di Credi (Italian, 1459–1537). Metalpoint, (losses on left sleeve of the Madonna restored in pen and brown ink?); framing lines in black and brown ink; sheet: 14.5 x 9.4 cm (5 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.); secondary support: 14.5 x 9.4 cm (5 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1963.472",
    "supportMaterials": [
        {
            "description": "laid paper prepared with an orange ground, laid down on cream(3) wove paper"
        }
    ],
    "collection": "DR - Italian",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "VERSO, lower right, in graphite: Lorenzo di Cre[di, paper skinned] ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT (now removed), lower left, in graphite: No. 5 [underlined]"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Clément, L., and Gérard Seguin. <em>Catalogue de Dessins Anciens et de Quelques Modernes, Estampes Anciennes, Lithographies, Provenant de La Collection de Feu M. Desperet</em>. Renou &amp; Maulde, June 7-13, 1865. Bibliothèque nationale de France [L.28572]",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p.17, n.57",
            "url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k374467b."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Danlos, Auguste. <em>Catalogue d’estampes Anciennes de Toutes Les Écoles et Dessins Composant La Collection de Feu M. L. G. [Louis Galichon]</em>. Annotated by Seymour de Ricci. Chamerot et Renouard, March 4-9, 1895. Bibliothèque nationale de France [L.53253]",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p.7, no.35",
            "url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k380640r"
        },
        {
            "citation": "J. P. (John Postle) Heseltine. <em>Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Italian School</em>, Forming Part of the Collection of J.P.H. Privately printed; reproduced by J.J Waddington, 1913. Getty Research Institute",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 18"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bernhard Degenhart. “Die Schüler des Lorenzo Credi.” <em>Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst</em>, no. 9 (1932): 95–161.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: 107, 112, fig 9 (as Jacopo di Castrocaro)"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Parker, K. T., and C. J. Holmes. <em>Catalogue of the Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings Formed by the Late Henry Oppenheimer</em>. Christie, Manson and Woods, London, July 10-14, 1936. Copy from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p.42, no.78",
            "url": "http://archive.org/details/oldmasterdrawing0000henr"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Berenson, Bernard. <em>The Drawings of the Florentine Painters</em>. Vol. 2. University of Chicago Publications in Art. University of Chicago Press, 1938.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p.350, no.2738 (as Giovanni Antonio Sogliani)"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Royal Academy of Arts. <em>Drawings by Old Masters</em>. The Academy, 1953.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p.14, n.32"
        },
        {
            "citation": "P. &amp; D. Colnaghi &amp; Co., <em>Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. &amp; Mrs. Francis Springell in Aid of the Children’s Country Holidays Fund</em>. P. &amp; D. Colnaghi &amp; Co., Ltd., October 15-November 11, 1959",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: n.20"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sotheby’s. <em>Important Old Master Drawings of the Italian School...The Property of Dr. and Mrs</em>. Francis Springell. Sotheby &amp; Co., June 28, 1962.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.9, no.9"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1963.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 50, no. 10 (1963): 263–94.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.268, p.294, n.117"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Richards, Louise S. “Two Early Italian Drawings.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 51, no. 8 (October 1964): 190–195.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 190-192, fig. 1",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152011"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 80",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n104"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Dalli Regoli, Gigetta. Lorenzo di Credi. Vol. 19. Raccolta pisana di saggi e studi. Edizioni di Comunita, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p.193, n.257 (as Maestro della Conversazione di S. Spirito (G. Cianfanini?))"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 80",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n104"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Pillsbury, Edmund P. <em>Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: n.55"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Feinblatt, Ebria. <em>Old Master Drawings from American Collections</em>. Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Universe Books, 1976.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.21-22, no.16"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 92",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n112"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. <em>The Draftsman’s Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles</em>. Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1981."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Webb, Sheila. <em>Paper, the Continuous Thread</em>. A Themes in Art Book. The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 41, no. 32; Mentioned: p. 67"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Forlani Tempesti, Anna. <em>Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings</em>. Vol. 5. The Robert Lehman Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton University Press, 1991.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned:p.244-246, no.10",
            "url": "http://metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/The_Robert_Lehman_Collection_Vol_5_Italian_Fifteenth_to_Seventeenth_Century_Drawings?Tag=&title=&author=&pt=&tc=&dept=&fmt="
        },
        {
            "citation": "Olszewski, Edward J., Burton L. Dunbar, Robert Munman, and Midwest Art History Society. <em>Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings</em>. Vol. 1. Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Harvey Miller, 2008.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.178, n.146"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.472",
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    "updatedAt": "2026-06-18 20:00:21.043000",
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