Live Auction 17420Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art Sold to Benefit Rugby School
After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-1564 Rome), French School, 1801/1802
Lot 143

After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-1564 Rome), French School, 1801/1802

Torso of a grinning man

Closed4 December 2018

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GBP 1,375

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After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-1564 Rome), French School, 1801/1802
Torso of a grinning man
inscribed 'dessin fait d'apres celui que legd. michel-ange Buonarotti dessina au/ crayon charbonné sur la muraille de la cuisine de sa maison de Settigniano/ a trois mille de Florence./ L'an 10 de la Repque francaise' [1801-1802] and with number '3381'
black chalk, stumping
7 3/8 x 8¼ in. (18.5 x 20.9 cm)

Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830) (L. 2445).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum.

Specialist note

This is a copy after Michelangelo's charcoal drawing of about 1503, in the Villa Michelangelo, Settignano near Florence, and which was detached from the wall in 1979 (see New York, Metropolitan Museum, Michelangelo, Divine Draftsman & Designer, exhib. cat., 2017-2018, no. 37, ill.).