Saint Christopher

Andrea Mantegnac.1500

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Title: Saint Christopher
Creator: Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431-1506)
Date Created: c.1500
Physical Dimensions: 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.)
Provenance: Conte Lodovico Moscardo, Verona (according to departmental card); Marquis of Calceolari (according to letters from Fritz Lugt and F. Matthiesen in file). [Francis Matthiesen, London]
Type: Drawing
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.39
Medium: pen and brown ink and blue gouache with brush and green wash and traces of orange gouache, heightened with white gouache
Inscriptions: upper left, in brown ink: di propria mano di / mi[o?] andrea matenga ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, across top, in red-brown pencil: [illegible] / [illegible] ; RECTO OF OLD MOUNT(now removed), upper right, in brown ink: 16.
Department: Drawings
Culture: Italy, late 15th-early 16th Century
Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Collection: DR - Italian
Accession Number: 1956.39

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