Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto); Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso)
1510–11
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564)
Drawings
Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto); Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso), 1510–11. Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564). Red chalk over black chalk or charcoal; sheet: 34.3 x 24.3 cm (13 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.); secondary support: 34.4 x 24.4 cm (13 9/16 x 9 5/8 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 When Michelangelo ran out of room for the figure's left foot, he turned the paper over and drew the foot in detail along with three additional sketches of the big toe.
- Maker/Artist
- Buonarroti, Michelangelo
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- red chalk over black chalk or charcoal
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 34.3 x 24.3 cm (13 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.); Secondary Support: 34.4 x 24.4 cm (13 9/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: recto: lower right, in brown ink: 55 [crossed out] verso: upper center, in brown ink: [Jr?]; upper right, in brown ink: V./.
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1940.465
- Credit Line
- Gift in memory of Henry G. Dalton by his nephews George S. Kendrick and Harry D. Kendrick
- Exhibitions
- Exhibition of the Month: Ways of Drawing Nudes, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries, Drawings, Old Master Drawings, Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection, Old Master Prints and Drawings, Seven Centuries of Italian Art, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage, Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions, The Lessons of the Academy, National Schools of Style, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Renaissance, and Baroque Art from the Papal Collections, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, From Raphael to the Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome, Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, Michelangelo: Mind of the Master
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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