Two Nudes Fighting
c. 1505
Artist, Florentine, 1475 - 1564
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper; laid down
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Credit Line
Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
Overall: 7.9 x 4.1 cm (3 1/8 x 1 5/8 in.)
support: 13.5 x 8.9 cm (5 5/16 x 3 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1991.150.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jonathan Richardson, Jr., London (Lugt 2170); Benjamin West, London (Lugt 419); [Helene C. Seiferheld Gallery Inc., New York]; William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, January 1963; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1963
Collector's Circle. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, May 11-June 10, 1963 (no catalogue).
Bibliography
1993
National Gallery of Art. Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. Washington, 1993, checklist p. 91.
2003
Joannides, Paul. "Two Drawings Related to Michelangelo's Hercules and Antaeus," Master Drawings, 41, no. 2, 2003: pp. 105-106, 112, 114, 115, n.5.
2007
Joannides, Paul. The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum. Cambridge, 2007: 170
Inscriptions
on mount by later hand, lower center in brown ink: Mich. Ang.
Wikidata ID
Q64614697