id: 119616
accession number: 1940.465.b
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Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso), 1510-1511. 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: 1510-1511
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: 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: 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: 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 (September 11-October 17, 1976); Kyoto National Museum (November 2-December 5, 1976).
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) (co-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 (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); Pierpont Morgan Library (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (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 (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 (organizer) (November 6, 2017-February 12, 2018).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* cma 1945a; cma 1958-59; cma 1960b; cma 1962a; cma 1964; cma 1966-67a; Providence 1967, 12; Cleveland 1971, no. 58 (as Alessandro Allori); Tokyo/Kyoto 1976, no. 22; cma 1978b; Cleveland 1979a, 10, 11, 16, 25, 57, 81-83, no. 55; cma 1980-81; cma 1983c; cma 1983f; cma 1986-87b; cma 1988b; cma 1991f; Cleveland 1997, 111, no. 35.
Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 8 - April 12, 1998. "Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Reniassance, and Baroque Art from the Papal Collections," exh. cat. no. 35, p. 111.
The Cleveland Museum of Art (8/27/00 - 10/17/00); NY, NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library (5/24/01- 8/19/01); Museum of Fine Arts Houston (10/14/01 - 1/6/02); "Master Drawings from The Cleveland Museum of Art", exh. cat. no. 6, color repr. p. 32, pp .30-33; p. 284.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (5/29/2009 - 9/6/2009): "From Raphael to the Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome", ex. cat. no. 9, p. 93-95.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (11/6/2017 - 2/12/2018): "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer"
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PROVENANCE
Pierre Jean Mariette (Lugt 1852, lower left, in black ink); [his sale, Paris, 15 November 1775-30 January 1776, lot 236: "Quarante feuilles de differentes Etudes de compositions, Tombeaux, Figures & Tetes"]. Bürckel family, Vienna; [possibly Prof. Heinrich Bürckel sale, Vienna, 9-10 December 1869]. Dr. Alexander de Frey, Temesvar, Romania; [his sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 12-14 June 1933, no. 7, pl. II (as school of Michelangelo)]. [Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York]; Henry G. Dalton, Cleveland; by descent to his nephews George S. and Harry D. Kendrick, Cleveland.
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wall description:
The verso of this drawing features several close-up preparatory studies of the foot and toes of an ignudo (athletic male nude) as well as two studies of a head and shoulders that have not been linked to any figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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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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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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