id: 119616 accession number: 1940.465.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.465.b updated: 2025-04-02 13:30:35.244000 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) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1510–11 creation date earliest: 1510 creation date latest: 1511 current location: creditline: Gift in memory of Henry G. Dalton by his nephews George S. Kendrick and Harry D. Kendrick copyright: --- culture: Italy, 16th century technique: red chalk heightened with traces of white department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(2) laid paper, perimeter mounted to gray laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: upper center, in brown ink: 82 (?); upper right, in brown ink: V./. translation: remark: --- 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: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00 Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (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 10-31, 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-February 28, 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: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). 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: Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions opening date: 1978-09-15T04:00:00 Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 15-December 4, 1978). 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: 1986-12-16T05:00:00 Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 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, Cleveland, OH (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, Cleveland, OH (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/. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Pierre Crozat, Paris (L. 3612), his sale 1741 date: 1741 footnotes: citations: Pierre Jean Mariette (L. 1852), Paris, his sale 1775-76, lot 236 date: 1775-76 footnotes: citations: Bürckel family, Vienna date: footnotes: citations: Dr. Alexander de Frey, Temesvar, Romania, his sale, 1933, lot 7 (as school of Michelangelo) date: 1933 footnotes: citations: purchased by Henry G. Dalton (1862-1939), Cleveland date: 1937 footnotes: citations: by descent to his nephews George S. and Harry D. Kendrick, Cleveland date: 1939 footnotes: citations: gift to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1940- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Francis, Henry S. "A Drawing in Red Chalk by Michelangelo." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 30, no. 3 (March 1943): 25-27. page number: Mentioned: p. 25-26; Reproduced: p. 27 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141045 Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. 1971. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 58 url: Olszewski, Edward J. "A Design for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 1 (January 1976): 12-26. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 12-14, fig. 2-3 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152620 Miller, Michael. "A Michelangelo Drawing." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 5 (May 1990): 146-174. page number: Mentioned: p. 146-174; Reproduced: Back, p. 148, fig. 3 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161284 Miller, Bruce F. "Technical Note on the Cleveland Michelangelo Drawing." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 5 (May 1990): 175-179. page number: Reproduced: p. 177; Mentioned: p. 175-179 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161285 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 url: 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 url: Chapman, H. "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer." Master Drawings 56, no.3 (Autumn 2018): 385-390. page number: Reproduced: p. 387, fig. 4 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.465.b/1940.465.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.465.b/1940.465.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.465.b/1940.465.b_full.tif