Saint Peter Martyr

16th Century?

Giovanni Battista Paggi

Giovanni Battista Paggi (Italian, 1554–1627)

Drawings

Saint Peter Martyr, 16th Century?. Giovanni Battista Paggi (Italian, 1554–1627). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; sheet: 33.6 x 23.5 cm (13 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.); secondary support: 42.3 x 31.8 cm (16 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries 1939.669

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Paggi, Giovanni Battista
Classification: Drawing
Formatted Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk
Medium: pen, brown, ink, brush, wash, over, black, chalk
Dimensions: Sheet: 33.6 x 23.5 cm (13 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.); Secondary Support: 42.3 x 31.8 cm (16 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: RECTO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower center, in brown ink: Ippolito Scarsellino . [Scarsellino underlined in graphite] ; lower center, in blue pencil: . 1551 ; lower center, in blue pencil: 1621 . ; lower right, in graphite: - voir au versò - ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, across top, in brown ink: Ippolito Scarsellino [underlined] da Ferrara [Ferrara underlined], figlio di Sigismondo Scarsella [Sigismondo Scarsella underlined] , excellete Disegnatore [illegible]. / morì L'anno 1620 ____ Orlandi [Orlandi underlined]; who, speaking of his Father, in this Article, & of the / fine works he left behind him in his own country of Ferrara [Ferrara underlined] ; says ___ L'opera più / bella che Lasciasse alla sua città fù il figlio Ippolito. [entire Italian phrase underlined]. A good Cavalier Expresion for / a monk! ; upper left, in graphite: 20ºº ; upper center, in blue pencil: # 46 ; upper right, in blue pencil: 20ºº ; upper left, in graphite(?): [illegible] ---- 10 [erased] ; upper left, in graphite: 74 [circled] ; center left, in graphite: 10 [sideways, erased] ; lower left, in graphite: OK-P . / 2 of Ma[r?] '61
Departments: Drawings
Accession Number: 1939.669
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Hays Gries
Exhibitions: Drawings, Old Master Drawings, Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection, CMA, Old Master Drawings (Mar. 10-30, 1964).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Apr. 1, 1963).
Rights Statement: CC0