Object details
Object number
1.2.o.15
Creator(s)
Title
Studies for the Crucified Haman, from the Sistine Ceiling
Date
late 16th century
Medium
Red chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
36.7 x 19.8 cm (14 7/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in black ink (lower center): michelangelo buonarota
Inscribed in ink (lower right corner): JCR [collector's mark of Sir John Charles Robinson, Lugt 1433]
Inscribed in brown ink (center right edge): marco de...
Stamped in blue ink (verso, lower left corner): ISG [in an oval, collector's mark of Isabella Stewart Gardner]; the same stamp only partially printed on lower right corner
Inscribed in graphite (front of the mount): No. 16.
Inscribed on affixed label on frame (verso): Torso- Anon- Italian
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner at auction from the sale of Sir John Charles Robinson's collection at Christie, Manson and Woods, London on 13 May 1902 for £11 through Thomas Agnew & Sons, lot 216.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Christie, Manson and Woods. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Drawings by Old Masters Formed by a Well-Known Amateur During the Last Forty Years (London, 12-14 May 1902), p. 25, lot 216. (as Michelangelo, "Study for the Figure of 'Haman,' in the Sistine Chapel ceiling)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), p. 67. (as after Michelangelo, copy of a drawing in the British Museum, 1895,0915.497)
Alexander Perrig. Michelangelo's Drawings: The Science of Attribution (New Haven and London, 1991), pp. 21, 30, 51-52, 58, 132. (later drawing after the Michelangelo fresco)
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as later sixteenth century imitator of Michelangelo)
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.101-103, fig. 52.
Gallery
Short Gallery
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