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A nude youth c. 1547
Pen and ink and brown wash, heightened with white; lightly squared in black chalk. | 24.6 x 16.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 990637
After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-Rome 1564)
A nude youth c. 1547
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A drawing after Michelangelo’s figure of the Ignudo to the left above Joel in the Sistine Chapel.
The drawing is one of a set of fourteen (RCIN 990632-990645), twelve of which copy ignudi on the Sistine Ceiling and were reproduced in engravings by Adamo Scultori (Adamo Ghisi); this drawing corresponds with the print inscribed ‘12’ (Bartsch 38). The drawings may be by Adamo's father Giovanni Battista Scultori: see RCIN 990634 for more details.Provenance
Listed in George III's Inventory A, c. 1800, p. 46 ‘Mich: Angelo Buonaroti’, Vol. 2, among ‘36 to 53. Copy's of Mich: Angelo's Sketches for the Ceiling of the Sixtine Chapel.' -
Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink and brown wash, heightened with white; lightly squared in black chalk.
Measurements
24.6 x 16.9 cm (sheet of paper)
