Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Museum
Portrait of a Prelate
mid-1500s
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Provenance
PublicProvenance event
By 1946 Italico Brass (Venice, Italy)
Provenance event
Alessandro Brass (Venice, Italy), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1947.
Source provenance text
By 1946 Italico Brass (Venice, Italy) Alessandro Brass (Venice, Italy), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1947.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957). Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 2025-February 1, 2026). CMA, 1956: "The Venetian Tradition," cat. by Henry S. Francis, cat. no. 55 (Note: the second part of the inscription given in the catalogue is non-existent).
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Sourced Overview Evidence
Girolamo da Carpi, a court artist from Ferrara, was influenced by the grace and intellectual artificiality found in Italian Mannerist art, seen in the flowing S-curve of the sitter's clothing and his delicate and attenuated fingers. The sitter's dress identifies him as a prelate, a high-ranking member of the Catholic clergy. His costume includes a dark mantel with red lining over a gauzy, white <em>rochet</em> and the three-cornered hat, called a<em> biretta</em>. In his right hand he holds a book whose cover displays an elephant, standing in water, looking at the moon. This motif symbolized purity, and the sitter's virtue is further emphasized through the book's inscription, MUNDOS LIBENTER ASPICIT, which means, "The moon beholds the pure with pleasure." While several noble Renaissance households used this design for their family emblems, none have yet proven related to the prelate in this painting and so his identity remains unknown.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 2 structured exhibitions.
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