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Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto); Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso)

Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto); Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso)

1510–11

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

(Italian, 1475–1564)

Italy, 16th century

Red chalk over black chalk or charcoal

Support: Beige(2) laid paper, perimeter mounted to gray laid paper

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

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Did you know?

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.

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.

Inscriptions

Inscription

recto: lower right, in brown ink: 55 [crossed out] verso: upper center, in brown ink: [Jr?]; upper right, in brown ink: V./.

Provenance

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-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Galerie Jean Charpentier. Dr. Alexander de Frey Collection. Sale catalogue, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, June 12-14, 1933. p. 17, no. 7, illus. pl. II (verso, as school of Michelangelo)

Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 1938. Vol 2, p. 213, no. 1599AA

Francis, Henry S. "A Drawing in Red Chalk by Michelangelo." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 30, no. 3 (1943): 25-26. www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 570 archive.org

Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958. reproduced p. 36 (recto)

Dussler, Luitpold. Die Zeichnungen Des Michelangelo; Kritischer Katalog. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1959. (as follower of Michelangelo) p. 208, no. 387

Barocchi, Paola. Michelangelo e la sua scuola i disegni di casa Buonarroti e degli uffizi. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1962. vol. I, pp. 24-25, 150, 180

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 92 archive.org

Rhode Island School of Design. Seven Centuries of Italian Art. A Benefit Exhibition for CRIA to Honor Rhode Island's Italian Festival, [Providence]: [Foremost Lithograph Co.], 1967. p. 12

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 92 archive.org

Hartt, Frederick. Michelangelo Drawings. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1970. pp. 20, 82, no. 79, p. 86, no. 104, repr. p. 98 (verso); repr. p. 108 (recto)

Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. 1971. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 58

De Tolnay, Charles. Corpus dei disegni di Michelangelo. Novara: Istituto geografico De Agostini, 1975. vol. I, p. 112, no. 147, repr. pl. 147 (recto and verso)

Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums from Ancient Egyptian to Contemporary Art. Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 1976. Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 22

Olszewski, Edward J. "A Design for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 1 (1976): 12-26. www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 106 archive.org

Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Cleveland: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1981. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 10- 11, p. 16, p. 25, p. 57, pp. 81-83, cat. no. 5

Miller, Michael. "A Michelangelo Drawing." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 5 (1990): 146-74. www.jstor.org

Miller, Bruce F. "Technical Note on the Cleveland Michelangelo Drawing." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 5 (1990): 175-79. Reproduced: p. 177; Mentioned: p. 175-79 www.jstor.org

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. Mentioned: P. 6, 30-33, 284; Reproduced: P. 31-32, cat. no. 6

Joannides, Paul, and Raphael. Raphael and His Age: Drawings from the Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Lille. [France]: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2002. p. 18, fig. 2 (recto)

Goldner, George R. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art," [Exhibition Catalogue] by Diane De Grazia, Carter E. Foster] Master Drawings Master Drawings Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer, 2002), pp. 174-176. p. 175, no. 6 (as copy)

Acidini Luchinat, Cristina. Michelangelo pittore. Milano: F. Motta, 2007. p. 206n70

Zöllner, Frank, Christof Thoenes, Thomas Pöpper, and Benedikt Taschen. Michelangelo, 1475-1564: Complete Works. Hong Kong: Taschen, 2007. p. 752

Brothers, Cammy. Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. pp. 32, 34

Olszewski, Edward J., Burton L. Dunbar, and Robert Munman. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings: A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. London: Harvey Miller, 2008. vol. I, pp. 234-38, no. 191

Gasparri, Carlo, David Franklin, Ingrid D. Rowland, and Sebastian Schütze. From Raphael to Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 9, p. 93-95.

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 155

Chapman, H. "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer." Master Drawings 56, no.3 (Autumn 2018): 385-390. Reproduced: p. 387, fig. 4

Chapman, Hugo. "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer." Master Drawings 56, No. 3 (Autumn 2018): 385-390 Mentioned and reproduced; pp. 386-387, figs. 3-4

Rosenberg, Pierre, Laure Barthélemy-Labeeuw, Marie-Liesse Delcroix, Stefania Lumetta, and Pierre-Jean Mariette. Les dessins de la collection Mariette: écoles italienne et espagnole. Paris : Somogy Éditions d’art, 2019. Reproduced and mentioned: p. 692-693, I1173

Peters, Emily J. and Julian Brooks, with Edina Adam, Marjan Scharloo, and Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken. Michelangelo: Mind of the Master. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019. Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 62-67, cat. 7

“Supporter Story: Chace and Josie Anderson.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 62, no. 4 (December 2022): 32-33. Reproduced: P. 33.

Exhibition history

Exhibition of the Month: Ways of Drawing Nudes. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-June 6, 1945).

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960).

Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964).

Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).

Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).

Seven Centuries of Italian Art. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI (organizer) (April 12-May 21, 1967).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968).

Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).

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).

Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 15-December 4, 1978).

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).

The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983).

National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

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).

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).

From Raphael to the Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.,, Canada (organizer) (May 29-September 6, 2009).

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).

Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (November 6, 2017-February 12, 2018).

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/.

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Red chalk over black chalk or charcoal

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Gift in memory of Henry G. Dalton by his nephews George S. Kendrick and Harry D. Kendrick

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