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Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto)

Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto)

1510–1511
(Italian, 1475–1564)
Italy, 16th century
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.)
Gift in memory of Henry G. Dalton by his nephews George S. Kendrick and Harry D. Kendrick 1940.465.a
Location: not on view

Description

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.
  • 1741
    Pierre Crozat, Paris (L. 3612), his sale 1741
    1775-76
    Pierre Jean Mariette (L. 1852), Paris, his sale 1775-76, lot 236
    Bürckel family, Vienna
    1933
    Dr. Alexander de Frey, Temesvar, Romania, his sale, 1933, lot 7 (as school of Michelangelo)
    1934-37
    with Wildenstein & Co., New York
    1937
    purchased by Henry G. Dalton (1862-1939), Cleveland
    1939
    by descent to his nephews George S. and Harry D. Kendrick, Cleveland
    1940-
    gift to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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