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Object Number 1955.75 People Copy after Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian (Caprese, Italy 1475 - 1564 Rome, Italy)

Medium Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; wings of eagle incised with stylus and damaged, parts then retouched Dimensions 36.1 x 27 cm (14 3/16 x 10 5/8 in.) frame: 53.3 x 41.9 x 3.2 cm (21 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: brown ink on brown paper: Property of / Noël Monod / Guinea [?] Road / Cos Cob [?] / Conn. [from old frame backing--now attached to backing board of current frame] inscription: Mount, along lower edge, Brown ink, English: According to Vasari this drawing was made for a young gentleman call'd Tomaso de Cavalieri by Michael Angelo in order to encourage, & teach him to draw. inscription: verso of mount, brown ink, center: N 29 [effaced] / AH: E. / Michael Angelo Bona rota inscription: verso of mount, lower left, graphite: 214 inscription: verso of mount, upper left, graphite: 37 [crossed out] / Mieff[?] collector's mark: l.r. corner, Black ink: L. 1433 (Sir J. C. Robinson) collector's mark: l.r. corner, Black ink: L. 2771 (H. C. Jennings)

ProvenanceHenry Constantine Jennings (L. 2771). Thomas Lawrence (without his mark); [Samuel Woodburn]; William II, King of Holland, his sale, Amsterdam, De Vries, Roos, and Brondgeest, 12 August 1850, lot 153, as "attributed to Michelangelo;" sold to Samuel Woodburn, his sale, London, Christie's, 4 June 1860, lot 137, bought by [dealer?] Enson. Sir John Charles Robinson (L. 1433); his son, Charles Newton Robinson, 1914 (presumably inherited in 1913 from his father). John Hemming Fry; Noel Monod, Greenwich, Conn.; sold to Fogg Art Museum for $1200, 1955.
Date circa 1533
date QS:P,+1533-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/297213?position=4
Author Copy after Michelangelo
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