Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
No public-rights comparable sales meet the current evidence criteria. RELICT does not fill the table with research-only or licensed-only facts.
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Holden Collection
Museum
Portrait of a Couple
c. 1580–88
Market Intelligence
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Last known price—0 matched observed sales
Observed median—
Observed sales0
Artist index—
No rights-cleared normalized observed sale is attached to this artwork. No synthetic price history is shown.
Artist index unavailableNo completed public artist-index build exists.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.
Evidence ranked
Provenance
PublicProvenance event
James Jackson Jarves (1884).
Provenance event
Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland.
Source provenance text
James Jackson Jarves (1884). Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962). Boston, 1883: American Exhibition of Foregin Products, Arts, and Manufactures: Art Department, "Jarves Collection,' pp. 20-22. (A Checklist of the collection exhibited by James Jackson Jarves at the Boston exposition; the collection was viewed and subsequently purchased, in toto, by Mr and Mrs L. E. Holden of Cleveland.) New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1912: "Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection," catalogue: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. vIII, no. 10 (October 1912), pp. 174-183; author Bryson Burroughs.) CMA, 1916: "The Inaugural Exhibition of CMA," cat. no. 27. Denver Art Museum, March1-April 30, 1956: "Clothers Make the Man," repr. p. 13 in catalogue. CMA, 1962: "Art and Humanism in the Renaissance," (no catalogue).
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Related public works
Explore catalog →Visual neighbours
The Dutton Family in the Drawing Room of Sherborne Park, Gloucestershire
Johann Zoffany (German, 1733–1810) · 1771
The Illustrated Miraculous Origins of the Yūzū Nenbutsu School
Unknown artist · 1300
Goddess standing on a mountaintop
Master of the court of Mandi (Indian) · 1715
Night Café
Louis Marcoussis (French, 1883–1941) · 1918
The Pink Cloud
Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910) · 1891
Sourced Overview Evidence
While the attribution remains hotly debated, this work exemplifies how Italian portraiture of the 1500s could articulate family alliances through marriage. The inscription gives the sitters’ ages as 35 and 28, and their elaborate jewelry, weapons, and garments, made of expensive materials, convey their elite status. The marten skin attached to the woman’s waist-its head decorated with gems-symbolized propriety. These expressions of wealth convey achievements and position rather than accurate personalities, and the figures, though lifelike, stand in awkward relationship to each other, their interaction one of alliance not love.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 4 structured exhibitions.
Place Of OriginShort DescriptionProvenance TextExhibition HistoryCredit Line