Male Nude [recto]

c. 1560

Michelangelo

Artist, Florentine, 1475 - 1564

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1991.217.3.a

Associated Artworks

Male Nude [verso]

Michelangelo

1560


Artwork history & notes

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

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.

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

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

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.

2007

  • Joannides, Paul. The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum. Cambridge, 2007: 236 and 245

Wikidata ID

Q64614698


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