The Funeral of Saint Stephen

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The Funeral of Saint Stephen

Fra Filippo LippiLinkedCulture matchlcp-8c94332e18f0

Date
c. 1460
Medium
pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash with traces of stylus over traces of black chalk
Culture
Italy, Florence
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
125816

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Since frescoes in 15th-century Italy often presented complex narratives, details of storytelling had to be carefully worked out before beginning to paint on wet plaster. Here Fra (Father) Filippo Lippi made a preliminary plan for a composition depicting the funeral of Saint Stephen, part of his fresco cycle on the lives of Saints Stephen and John the Baptist in the cathedral of Prato. His use of the free-flowing but permanent medium of ink allows us to see today the areas where he changed his mind—such as the placement of Stephen’s head and the figure at the altar.

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Credit line
John L. Severance Fund
Provenance
Possibly Giorgio Vasari, Arezzo | Paul Oswald, Locarno | 1922 (?): Carl O. Schniewind, Zurich and Chicago | ca. 1936: possibly Ludwig Rosenthal, Bern and Munich | ca. 1936: with Dr. F. A. Drey, Munich | 1936: with P & D Colnaghi, London | Colonel Norman Colville, London | with P & D Colnaghi, London | ca. 1947: with Dr. August Maria Klipstein (1885-1951), Bern | 1947: with Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY. | Paul Oswald, Locarno, Switzerland | 1947: Purchased by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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