The Idolatry of Solomon
1622–23
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, point of brush and black ink, brush and brown wash, and white and blue gouache, framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- 24.8 × 43.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192201
Pietro da Cortona was one of the most successful and active fresco painters in Rome in the mid-1600s. This drawing is a preparatory sheet—highly worked-up with many different mediums—for one of the artist's six frescoes portraying the story of Solomon commissioned by the Roman nobleman Asdrubale Mattei (1556-1638) for the gallery of his Palazzo Mattei di Giove. Reflecting the artist's as well as his patron's interest in classical antiquity, Cortona combined a classical relief-like composition with specific references to Roman objects and architectural elements in the composition. The subject …
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1987.142
Registry history
- 1622–23 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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