LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black chalk with touches of brown ink

Measurements:

12.91 in. (32.80 cm.) (height) by 9.61 in. (24.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed 'Michael Angelo' in pen and ink, old backing

Exhibited:

London, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, May-June 1953, no. 17 (as Daniele da Volterra), not reproduced; Edinburgh, The Merchants' Hall, Italian 16th -Century Drawings from British Private Collections, 1969, no. 37, reproduced pl. 59; Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Disegni Veneti di collezioni inglesi, 1980, no. 25, reproduced; Gainesville, et al., 1991-93, no. 3, reproduced

Literature:

Gert Jan Van der Sman, 'Battista Franco: studi di figura per dipinti e incisioni', Prospettiva (97), 2000, pp. 70-72, note 44; Anne Varick Lauder, 'Absorption and interpretation: Michelangelo through the eyes of a Venetian follower, Battista Franco', Reactions to the Master: Michelangelo's Influence on Art and Artists in the Sixteenth Century, London 2003, p. 105; Idem, 'Battista Franco (c.1510-1561). His Life and Work with Catalogue Raisonné,' Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2004, vol. II, pp. 299-300, no. 21 DA; reproduced vol. IV, fig. 713

Provenance:

Prince of Liechtenstein, Vienna, (as Daniele da Volterra); with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London; Timothy Clifford; with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co, Jean-Luc Baroni, London; acquired in 1988