id: 119616
accession number: 1940.465.b
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Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso), 1510–11. Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564). Red chalk heightened with traces of white; sheet: 23.4 x 33.5 cm (9 3/16 x 13 3/16 in.); secondary support: 24.4 x 34.4 cm (9 5/8 x 13 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Henry G. Dalton by his nephews George S. Kendrick and Harry D. Kendrick 1940.465.b
title: Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso)
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creation date: 1510–11
creation date earliest: 1510
creation date latest: 1511
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creditline: Gift in memory of Henry G. Dalton by his nephews George S. Kendrick and Harry D. Kendrick
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culture: Italy, 16th century
technique: red chalk heightened with traces of white
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Italian
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 23.4 x 33.5 cm (9 3/16 x 13 3/16 in.); Secondary Support: 24.4 x 34.4 cm (9 5/8 x 13 9/16 in.)
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description: beige(2) laid paper, perimeter mounted to gray laid paper
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inscription: upper center, in brown ink: 82 (?); upper right, in brown ink: V./.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Exhibition of the Month: Ways of Drawing Nudes
opening date: 1945-01-30T04:00:00
Exhibition of the Month: Ways of Drawing Nudes. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-June 6, 1945).
title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition
opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00
Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).
title: Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries
opening date: 1960-05-18T04:00:00
Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960).
title: Drawings
opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00
Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).
title: Old Master Drawings
opening date: 1964-03-10T05:00:00
Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-30, 1964).
title: Old Master Prints and Drawings
opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00
Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-April 1, 1967).
title: Seven Centuries of Italian Art
opening date: 1967-04-12T05:00:00
Seven Centuries of Italian Art. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI (organizer) (April 12-May 21, 1967).
title: Drawings from the Museum Collection
opening date: 1967-06-09T04:00:00
Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968).
title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage
opening date: 1971-10-29T04:00:00
Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 1971-January 2, 1972).
title: Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums
opening date: 1976-09-11T04:00:00
Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (organizer) (September 11-October 17, 1976); Kyoto National Museum (November 2-December 5, 1976).
title: The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles
opening date: 1979-03-06T05:00:00
The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).
title: Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions
opening date: 1980-10-21T04:00:00
Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).
title: The Lessons of the Academy
opening date: 1983-02-08T05:00:00
The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983).
title: National Schools of Style
opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00
National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).
title: Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection
opening date: 1986-12-15T05:00:00
Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1986-March 1, 1987).
title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00
Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
title: Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Renaissance, and Baroque Art from the Papal Collections
opening date: 1998-02-08T00:00:00
Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Renaissance, and Baroque Art from the Papal Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 8-April 12, 1998).
title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
title: From Raphael to the Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome
opening date: 2009-05-29T00:00:00
From Raphael to the Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.,, Canada (organizer) (May 29-September 6, 2009).
title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00
Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).
title: Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer
opening date: 2017-11-06T00:00:00
Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (November 6, 2017-February 12, 2018).
title: Michelangelo: Mind of the Master
opening date: 2019-09-22T04:00:00
Michelangelo: Mind of the Master. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22, 2019-January 5, 2020); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (co-organizer) (February 25-November 1, 2020) https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/michelangelo_drawings/.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Pierre Crozat, Paris (L. 3612), his sale 1741
date: 1741
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Pierre Jean Mariette (L. 1852), Paris, his sale 1775-76, lot 236
date: 1775-76
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Bürckel family, Vienna
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Dr. Alexander de Frey, Temesvar, Romania, his sale, 1933, lot 7 (as school of Michelangelo)
date: 1933
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purchased by Henry G. Dalton (1862-1939), Cleveland
date: 1937
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by descent to his nephews George S. and Harry D. Kendrick, Cleveland
date: 1939
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gift to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1940-
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fun fact:
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Universally considered one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo devoted four years to painting the vast ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel. This preparatory study portrays one of the 20 athletic male nudes, known as ignudi, who serve as supporting figures at each corner of the Old Testament scenes painted down the center of the ceiling. Michelangelo worked out the positioning of the ignudi in red chalk drawings before beginning to paint each section of wet plaster. The energy and monumentality of the figure in red chalk, whose body extends beyond the sheet, suggests the heroic athleticism of Michelangelo’s sculpture.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. 1971.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 58
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: P. 6, 30-33, 284; Reproduced: P. 32, cat. no. 6
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 155
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Chapman, H. "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer." Master Drawings 56, no.3 (Autumn 2018): 385-390.
page number: Reproduced: p. 387, fig. 4
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