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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.152
People
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian (Caprese, Italy 1475 - 1564 Rome, Italy)
Title
Goldsmith's Designs, including Two Ideas for an Oil Lamp; verso: Study for a Sarcophagus in the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1521
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298989

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on beige antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
Dimensions
15.6 x 15.4 cm (6 1/8 x 6 1/16 in.)
framed: 40 × 33.3 × 3.2 cm (15 3/4 × 13 1/8 × 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Verso of old backing sheet, upper center, Brown ink: D.41 / La.35 [crossed out] / CC46 [crossed out] / K (L. 2984)
  • inscription: Verso of old backing sheet, upper left, Graphite: Michelangelo B.
  • collector's mark: Lower left corner, Black ink: L. 1531 (Earl Spencer)
  • collector's mark: Lower right corner, Black ink: L. 2183 (Jonathan Richardson, Sr.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jonathan Richardson, Sr., London (Lugt 2183). William Russell, London. Earl Spencer, Althorp, England (Lugt 1531). Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna, Prague (Lugt 2773), sold; [through his sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 6-8, 1910, no. 148]; to Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, 1910, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.152
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Katalog der berühmten sammlung des herrn barons Adalbert von Lanna in Prag: Volume II, Handzeichnungen alter meister und kupferstiche, etc., auct. cat., H. G. Gutekunst (Stuttgart, Germany, May 6 -11, 1910), cat. no. 148, p. 16; repr. (recto) pl. IX, n.p.
  • Bernard Berenson, "Andrea di Michelangiolo e Antonio Mini", L'Arte (July 1935), no. 6, pp. 243-283, repr. (recto) fig. 23, p. 267; pp. 269 and 275
  • Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. 1, pp. 363-364; vol. II, no. 1623D, p. 221; vol. III, repr. fig. 796
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 120, pp. 73-74; vol. 2, repr. fig. 76 (recto) as School of...
  • Arthur E. Popham, "Drawings in the Fogg Museum", The Burlington Magazine (June 1948), vol. XC, no. 543, no. 120, p. 179
  • Arthur E. Popham and Johannes Wilde, The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, Phaidon Press (London, 1949), under no. 425, pp. 249-250
  • Ludwig Goldscheider, Michelangelo Drawings, Phaidon Press (London, England, 1951), no. 64
  • Johannes Wilde, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum--Michelangelo and his Studio (London, England, 1953), under no. 66, p. 105, and no. 87, p. 124
  • Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1958), no. 18, p. 27, as school of
  • Luitpold Dussler, Die Zeichnungen des Michelangelo: Kritischer Katalog, Gebr. Mann (Berlin, Germany, 1959), cat. no. 381, pp. 206-207; repr. (recto) pl. 200, n.p.
  • The Lively Arts of the Renaissance, exh. cat., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX, 1960), cat. no. 5, n.p.
  • Anxiety and Elegance: The Human Figure in Italian Art, 1520-1580, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1962), no. 16, p. 6
  • Michelangelo: A Symposium & Exhibition, brochure, University of WisconsinPress/The Medieval-Renaissance Guild (Milwaukee, WI, November 1964), details repr. p. 3 and p. 8
  • Charles de Tolnay, "Minor Works", The Complete Work of Michelangelo, ed. Mario Salmi, Reynal (New York, NY, 1965), repr. fig. 18, p. 502; pp. 506-7
  • Frederick Hartt, Michelangelo Drawings (New York, NY, 1972), no. 376
  • Charles de Tolnay, Corpus dei disegni di Michelangelo, Istituto Geografico de Agostini-Novara (Novara, 1976), vol. III, cat. no. 438, pp. 86-87; repr. color (recto) pl. 438, n.p.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, "Charles Loeser as a Collector of Drawings", Apollo (June 1978), vol. CVII, no. 196, pp. 464-469, repr. (recto) fig. 3, p. 466; p. 467
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 11, n.p., pl. 11, repr. (recto), fig. 14, repr. (verso)
  • Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), p. 8; cat. no. 13, p. 38; repr. (recto), p. 39
  • Paul Joannides, Review of Tolnay, "Corpus dei disegni di Michelangelo", The Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America (1981), vol. LXIII, no. 438, p. 685
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), pp. 30 and 32; cat. no. 20, n.p.; repr. (recto) color, n.p.
  • Paul Joannides, "A Newly Unveiled Drawing by Michelangelo and the Early Iconography of the Magnifici Tomb", Master Drawings (Autumn 1991), vol. XXIX, pp. 255-263; repr. fig. 1 (recto), p. 256; fig. 7 (verso), p. 261
  • Paul Joannides, "Michelangelo Bronzista: Reflections on his mettle", Apollo (1997), vol. CXLV, no. 424, repr. fig. 2 (recto), p. 12; p. 13
  • Ernst-Gerhard Güse and Alexander Perrig, Zeichnungen aus der Toskana: Das Zeitalter Michelangelos, exh. cat., Saarland Museum and Prestel-Verlag (Saarbrücken and Munich/New York, 1997), under cat. no. 41, p. 152; repr. fig. 4, same page; as Benvenuto Cellini
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 30 under "Black chalk"
  • Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 29, p. 28
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con due stelle nere")
  • James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), pp. 11, 13, 16; cat. no. 4, pp. 29-30; repr. fig. 4R, p. 29, and fig. 4V, p. 30
  • Frank Zöllner, Christof Thoenes, and Thomas Pöpper, Michelangelo 1475-1564: Complete Works, Taschen GmbH (Cologne, 2007), p. 752
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 74, repr.
  • Matthias Waschek, Marjorie B. Cohn, Judith Mann, and Stephan Wolohojian, Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2008), no. 34, repr. pp. 34-35
  • Dr. Carmen Bambach, Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Deesigner, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2017), no. 102 (recto), no. 103 (verso), pp. 126-127, 299, repr. p. 127 (recto and verso)
  • Barbara Furlotti, Guido Rebecchini, and Antonio Geremicca, Giulio Romano: La forza delle cose, exh. cat., Palazzo Te (Mantova, 2022), pp. 56, 60-61, repr. p. 56, detail, and p. 60 as fig. 4

Exhibition History

  • Old Master Drawings, Unknown Venues, 10/01/1949 - 06/30/1950
  • Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 11/18/1958 - 01/04/1959
  • The Lively Arts of the Renaissance, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 01/15/1960 - 02/21/1960
  • Anxiety and Elegance: The Human Figure in Italian Art, 1520-1580, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/01/1962 - 05/25/1962
  • An Exhibition of Italian Drawings: Works by Michelangelo and other Masters, Department of Art History Gallery, University of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, 11/12/1964 - 11/24/1964
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
  • Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2001 - 08/12/2001
  • Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009
  • Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 11/13/2017 - 02/12/2018

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