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Michelangelo

Male Nude [recto], c. 1560

Not on View

Medium

black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 23.4 x 10 cm (9 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Armand Hammer Collection

Accession Number

1991.217.3.a

Artists / Makers

Michelangelo (artist) Florentine, 1475 - 1564

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Provenance

Sir John Charles Robinson [1824-1913], London; sold to John Malcolm [1805-1893], Poltalloch; by inheritance to his son-in-law, Alfred E. Gathorne-Hardy; by descent to his son, Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy; gift to his cousin, Robert Gathorne-Hardy; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 April 1976, no. 14); Armand Hammer, Los Angeles; gift 1991 to NGA [note: no collectors' marks visible on sheet as object is currently matted].

Associated Names

Gathorne-Hardy, Alfred E.
Gathorne-Hardy, Geoffrey
Gathorne-Hardy, Robert
Hammer Foundation, Armand, The
Malcolm, John
Robinson, John Charles, Sir

Exhibition History

1953: An Exhibition of Drawings by Michelangelo Belonging to H.M the Queen, the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum and other English Collections, British Museum, London, 1953, no. 128.

1965: Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art, 1520-1600, City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1965, no. 338.

1971: Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, P.& D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, 1971; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, no. 9.

1975: Drawings by Michelangelo, British Museum, London, 1975, no. 156.

1976: Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1976, starting with Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, 1976.

1976: Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.

1976: Old Master Drawings from the Gathorne-Hardy Collection, Sotheby & Co., London, 1976, no. 14.

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, p. 40.

1988: Michelangelo: Draftsman, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1988, no. 56 (recto only).

Bibliography

1902: Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings...in the Possession of the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy, London, 1902, no. 7.

1903: Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of Florentine Painters, New York, 1903, vol 2, no. 1540.

1913: Thode, Henry. Michelangelo: kritische Untersuchungen über seine Werke, Berlin, 1913: 163, no. 368.

1938: Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, Chicago, 1938, vol. 3, no. 1544b, fig. 717 (recto).

1953: Wilde, Johannes. Italian Drawings...in the British Museum, Michelangelo and His Studio. London, 1953: 15, no. 75.

1959: Dussler, Luitpold. Die Zeichnungen des Michelangelo, Berlin, 1959, no. 338, plate 136 (recto).

1960: De Tolnay, Charles. Michelangelo, the Final Period. Princeton, N.J., 1960: 206, no. 219, plate 197.

1961: Bernard Berenson, I disegni dei pittori fiorentini, Milan, 1961, vol. 2, no. 1544b.

1971: Hartt, Frederick. The Drawings of Michelangelo. London, 1971: 352, no. 509 (recto).

1975: Joannides, Paul. "Review of the Exhibition 'Drawings by Michelangelo' at the British Museum." The Burlington Magazine, vol. 117 (1975): 262.

1978: De Tolnay, Charles. Corpus dei Disegni di Michelangelo, Novara, 1978, no. 429 (no illus.).

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 664, no. 1050, color repro. of recto.