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A Resurrected Soul c.1600-20
Black chalk or oiled charcoal on blue paper, heightened with white | 33.5 x 25.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 990631
After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-Rome 1564)
A Resurrected Soul c.1600-20
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A drawing of a resurrected soul emerging from his grave, copied from the lower left of Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. A pedestrian copy, probably by a follower of Annibale Carracci in the first part of the seventeenth century.
Inscribed at lower left: ‘M. A. Buona Rota’.Provenance
Listed in George III’s ‘Inventory A’, c. 1800-20, p. 44, 'Mich: Angelo Buonarroti. / Tom. I.' (c. 1802): ‘33 to 40. Studies for seperate figures, in the last Day's Judgement; with a….Pen; and in Black….and….Red Chalk.' Earlier provenance unknown.
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Black chalk or oiled charcoal on blue paper, heightened with white
Measurements
33.5 x 25.5 cm (sheet of paper)
