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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
John Brown meant for the dark background of this drawing to evoke the potential danger of Italian nights; the writer Johann Joachim Winckelmann had been murdered in Trieste in 1768, in the most conspicuous example of the period's widespread violence.
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Joan and Cornelius Blaeu|Caspar Barlaeus|Claes Moeyaert|Piet
Anonymous — Allegorical Figure (recto)
Pierre Hutin — Satyr standing on a stage and pointing downwa
Erasmus Quellinus — An Allegory of the Arts with Isis and Ge
Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier (French, 1743–1824) — Study
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|baron Dominique Vivant D
Joseph Wagner|Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)|Charles Joseph Fl
John Hamilton Mortimer — Classical Subject (Lucretia's Dead 
F. Müller (German) — Allegorical Scene: Couple before a Stat
Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Faust: P
Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson|Anonymous, French, 18th century —
Jacques Callot — Le Couronnement D'Épines (The Crowning with
