Cimon and Pero (Roman Charity), 1540

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with charcoal heightened with white on heavy laid paper; laid down (repair to Pero's ear)

Dimensions

overall: 39.7 x 24.1 cm (15 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection

Accession Number

1998.17.1

Artists / Makers

Sebald Beham (artist) German, 1500 - 1550

Image Use

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Inscription

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."]

Marks and Labels

recto: Adolphe Mouriau (Lugt 1853)

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

Bayser, Bruno de
Mouriau, Adolphe
Strölin, Jacqueline
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Ian

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.