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Christ and angels, after Michelangelo's Conversion of St Paul c. 1560
Black chalk; watermark of crossbow in circle. | 59.4 x 44.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 991362
After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-Rome 1564)
Christ and angels, after Michelangelo's Conversion of St Paul c. 1560
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A drawing copying a portion of Michelangelo’s Conversion of Saint Paul in the Pauline Chapel, Vatican Palace.
This drawing, on four irregular pieces of paper, shows the upper right section of the scene, with Christ coming down from Heaven accompanied by angels and blessed. It is en suite with a drawing of three soldiers from the same fresco (RCIN 990647). The draughtsman seems to have adopted the procedure of copying a section of the fresco and then cutting his sheet and joining another to it, on which the forms begun on the first were continued; some figures are sketched with a lightly hard chalk, others are worked over. See 990647 for more details.Inscribed in pen and ink, lower right, ‘Studi di Michelangelo’.
Provenance
Probably the second of two drawings listed in George III's Inventory A, c.1800, p. 44, 'Mich: Angelo Buonarroti’, Tom. I: ‘54. & 55. Other Figures of Mich: Angelo's School.' (Later removed from that album as oversized, the number 55 struck through in the inventory, and hence this drawing is not numbered consecutively with the first of those two drawings, 990647).
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Black chalk; watermark of crossbow in circle.
Measurements
59.4 x 44.4 cm (sheet of paper)
