Recent acquisitions of the Cleveland Museum of Art

17/7/26 - Acquisitions - Cleveland, Museum of Art - Although the most important purchase made by the Cleveland Museum of Art over the past year and a half is indeed the Giambologna marble, which we discussed in this news item of 25/7/25, not to mention two cups (see the news item of 28/2/26) and a snuffbox (see the news item of 14/5/26), the American museum has enriched its collections during this period with several new works that we will examine by medium.

Drawings

We will begin, in chronological order, with the drawings, whose harvest has been abundant.

Girolamo da Treviso, Saint Jerome and Saint Catherine of Alexandria in a Landscape (ill. 1). This sheet was acquired on 4 February last at Sotheby’s New York during the sale of the collection of Diane A. Nixon. Formerly attributed to Pellegrino Tibaldi, it was given back to the Bolognese artist (born in Treviso) by Philipp Pouncey, before Mario di Giampaolo linked it to an altarpiece by this artist preserved in Warsaw at the Narodowe Muzeum.

Massimo Stanzione, double-sided drawing with studies of archangels (ill. 2). Drawings by the Neapolitan Caravaggesque artist Massimo Stanzione are exceedingly rare. This one, acquired from the Parisian gallery Sabrier and Paunet in 2025, is considered a first thought for a painting in the Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales in Madrid.