Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
American painter Benjamin West was born into poverty, the youngest of ten children, and rose to become the first American artist to train in Italy after gaining funding from wealthy patrons in Philadelphia.
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Alessandro Maganza — Male Figure Seen from Behind
Anonymous, Italian, 16th to 17th century — Grotesque Head wi
Annibale Carracci — Crawling Male Figure (Study for Cacus)
Pietro Antonio III Novelli — Hoofd van een gorgon en een sat
Leonardo da Vinci — The Head of a Grotesque Man in Profile F
Francisco de Herrera, the Elder — Study of a Seated Nude, Be
Peter Paul Rubens|Louis Marin Bonnet — Head of a man and a s
Seated Figure
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) — Bust of a Man Facin
Giovanni Lanfranco — Male Figure Running
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard — Study of a Male Nude (Althaemen
Cecco Bravo (Italian, 1607–1661) — Study of a Standing Male 
