Scheme for the Decoration of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
- Date
- c. 1508
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and black chalk on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
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Sheet: 14 11/16 x 9 7/8 in. (37.3 x 25 cm)
- Department
- Prints, Drawings & Photographs
- Classification
- Drawing
- Credit
- City of Detroit Purchase
- Accession No.
- 27.2.A
- Provenance
- Emile Wauters, Brussels and Paris (black collector's mark on recto in lower right corner and on verso in lower left corner [L.911 and 912 and Suppl. 911]). Sale, Frederick Muller and Co., Amsterdam, June 15 - 16, 1926, no. 118, p. 24, 1927
- Keywords
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bistre, chalk, paper, pen, study, design
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