Live Auction 5688Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours
After Michelangelo Buonarroti
Lot 5

After Michelangelo Buonarroti

Pietà

Closed3 July 2012

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GBP 3,500

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After Michelangelo Buonarroti
Pietà
black chalk
11 x 8¼ in. (28 x 20.8 cm.)

A noble European family, since the early 20th Century.

Specialist note

An early copy of Michelangelo's drawing of 1538-1544. The original drawing was executed as a gift for Vittoria Colonna and is now in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (F. Hartt, The Drawings of Michelangelo, London, 1971, no. 455).