Cimon and Pero (Roman Charity)
1540
Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with charcoal heightened with white on heavy laid paper; laid down (repair to Pero's ear)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 39.7 x 24.1 cm (15 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
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Accession
1998.17.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Adolphe Mouriau (1805-1865?), Belgium (Lugt 1853); Jacqueline Strölin, Lausanne, Switzerland; purchased (via Bruno de Bayser) by Ian Woodner, New York, November 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1998.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 56.
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 68.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 46.
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 46.
Inscriptions
recto: upper right in pen and black ink: 1540 / HSB; upper left in pen and black ink: QVO NON PENETRAT / AVT QVID NON EX: / COGOTAT PIETAS ["Where does piety not penetrate or what does it not devise."]
Markings
recto: Adolphe Mouriau (Lugt 1853)
Wikidata ID
Q64630679