Male Figure Study, with Slight Sketch of Seated Figure

Prints and Drawings

1540/50

Follower of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Italian, 1475-1564

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Follower of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Title: Male Figure Study, with Slight Sketch of Seated Figure
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1540–1550
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Roma 3# / 1306 [1536?]"; inscribed verso, lower center, in pen and black ink (in the "Gurley" hand): "Michelangelo Buonarroti. / 1475-1564"
Dimensions: 26.9 × 19.1 cm (10 5/8 × 7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.513
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Konrad Oberhuber, “Reviews: Observations on Perino del Vaga as a Draughtsman,” Master Drawings 4 (1966), pp. 170-82.
Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 84, no. 3B3 (as Anonymous Sixteenth Century, Florence).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 142-43, no. 183 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.

Dr. Ridley, Croydon, England; sold, Sotheby’s, London, April 2, 1912, part of lot 216, as ‘Study of leg by Michelangelo, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 183

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