Anatomical Study and Sketch of Kneeling Figure

Provenance

Unknown collector [stamp (oval crest with Pegasus[?]; not in Lugt) recto, lower right, in black]. Charles I (1600-1649), England [according to inscription recto, lower center, in graphite]. Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) [according to inscription recto, lower right in pen and brown ink]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Jan. 29, 1915, part of lot 301 (as Michelangelo), to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower center, in black].

Anatomical Study and Sketch of Kneeling Figure

Follower of Michelangelo Buonarroti

n.d.

Accession Number

81698

Medium

Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

22.8 × 21.9 cm (9 × 8 5/8 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection