CMA: Drawings

Sharing public domain works from the Drawings department of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Not associated with the Cleveland Museum of Art.

09/08/2020

Cattle, Jules Dupré, second or last third 1800s

https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.675.b

09/08/2020

The River God Tiber (Study for a fresco, Miracle of the Snow, or the Foundation of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome in the Canigiani chapel of S. Felicita, Florence), Bernardino Poccetti, 1589

Since ancient times, artists have depicted river gods as reclining bearded men, often holding or leaning on a large urn pouring water. This example, a preparatory sketch for a painting, personifies the Tiber River, which plays a role in Rome’s legendary origins. Romulus, the founder of Rome, and his twin brother, Remus, were abandoned as infants at the river, where they were rescued by a she-wolf. Poccetti lightly sketched the animal’s head behind the river god along with the face of Romulus or Remus.

https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.36