US museum buys a van Overbeek
The Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio has become the third US institution to hold a work by the obscure Dutch artist Michel van Overbeek (fl.1650-1719) after acquiring this small drawing of the Pyramid of Cestius in Rome.
The museum bought the diminutive 4 x 8in (10 x 20cm) pen, brown ink and red chalk drawing from wor…