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Document identity
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133787
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Saint Christopher
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obj
dtoType
drawing
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1
Source metadata
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133787
contentType
drawing
title
Saint Christopher
date
c. 1500
citation
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60755427
creators
8173
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 28.6 x 17.4 cm (11 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 28.7 x 17.6 cm (11 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
cul
Italy, late 15th-early 16th Century
accession
1956.39
Source extras
tec
pen and brown ink and blue gouache with brush and green wash and traces of orange gouache, heightened with white gouache
tombstone
Saint Christopher, c. 1500. Andrea Mantegna (Italian, about 1431–1506). Pen and brown ink and blue gouache with brush and green wash and traces of orange gouache, heightened with white gouache; sheet: 28.6 x 17.4 cm (11 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.); secondary support: 28.7 x 17.6 cm (11 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1956.39
supportMaterials
description
beige(1) laid(?) paper, laid down on beige(1) wove paper
collection
DR - Italian
inscriptions
inscription
Upper left: di propria mano di / mi[o?] [likely an abbreviation for "Maestro"] andrea matenga (brown ink)
sortorder
1
inscription
Verso of secondary support, top: [illegible] (red-brown pencil)
sortorder
2
inscription
Recto of old mount (now removed), upper right:16 (brown ink)
sortorder
3
citations
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 567
citation
Frankfurter, Alfred M. “Cleveland: Model Museum for a Modern Cosmopolis.” Artnews (New York, N.Y.), no. 57 (March 1958): 21–37.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p.31
citation
Ragghianti, Carlo L., ed. “Mostre, Musei, Galerie: Museo di Cleveland.” <em>Sele arte</em>, no. 35 (March 1958): 2–3.
page_number
Reproduced: p.2; fig. 1
citation
<em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Vol. 45. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Reproduced: p.33
citation
Ames, Winslow.<em> Great Drawings of All Time: Italian</em>. Vol. 1, edited by Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson. Great Drawings of All Time. Shorewood Publishers, 1962.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: n.78 (as School of Mantegna)
citation
Jaffé, Michael. “The Figurative Arts of the West c. 1400-1800 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.” <em>Apollo: The International Art Magazine</em>, no. 78 (December 1963): 457–67.
page_number
Mentioned: p.466
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. 87
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. 87
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. 99
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1991.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 67 (as Circle of Andrea Mantegna)
citation
Olszewski, Edward J. <em>Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Early Works.</em> Vol. 1, edited by Burton L. Dunbar and Edward J. Olszewski. <em>Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus Compiled by the Midwest Art History Society</em>. University of Missouri Press, 1996.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p.65-67; n.12 (as follower of Andrea Mantegna)
citation
Karet, Evelyn, and Peter Windows. “The ‘Antonio II Badile Album’ of Drawings: A Reconstruction of an Early Sixteenth Century Collection.” <em>Arte Lombarda</em>, no. 145 (3) (2005): 23–56.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p.26, 41; fig.39
citation
Degenhart, Bernhard, Annegrit Schmitt, Hans-Joachim Eberhardt, et al. <em>Verona Badile-Album: Studiensammlung Einer Veroneser Künstlerwerkstatt</em>. Vol. 3, Corpus Der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450. Biering & Brinkmann, 2010.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p.25, 45 (f.16v), 164-169; n.808, fig.100 (as Bernardino Butinone)
citation
Karet, Evelyn. <em>The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy</em>. With Peter Windows and Alessandra Zamperini. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p.79-81, 101,n.53, 227-228; n.53, figs. 3.14, A2.2
citation
Fisher, Kylie. “Drawing from Mantegna: Engaging with Engraving in Cinquecento Northern Italian Art.” <em>Athanor</em> 35 (2017): 31–40.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: 31-35; fig. 1 (as Follower of Andrea Mantegna)
citation
Windows, Peter. "The Attributional Inscriptions in the Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings." <em>Master Drawings</em>, 56, no.4 (Winter 2018): 443-462.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 445, figs. 5-6
citation
Windows, Peter. "The Attributional Inscriptions in the Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings." Master Drawings 56, no. 4 (Winter 2018): 443-462
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced; p.445, fig. 5-6
creditline
Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 06:51:56.458000
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133787
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Drawings
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DR - Italian
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pen and brown ink and blue gouache with brush and green wash and traces of orange gouache, heightened with white gouache
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male
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