Collection A Group of Soldiers from the Crucifixion of Saint Peter

A Group of Soldiers from the Crucifixion of Saint Peter

Italian, Artist Michelangelo, Artist
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About the Artwork

A Group of Soldiers from the Crucifixion of Saint Peter

after 1550

(Artist) Italian Michelangelo (Artist) Italian, 1475-1564

Red chalk over a preliminary drawing in black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Sheet: 16 × 9 5/8 inches (40.6 × 24.4 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1SDR175

This work is in the public domain.

Markings

Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper left corner: [indecipherable] Inscribed, in black chalk, verso, center: 23 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, along lower edge: gekauft von Baumgartner 1864 2 OWf [E?]--Alte Zeichnung nach Michel Angelo

Watermark: [circle within six-pointed star within circle to which a small Latin cross is attached] Stamp, in black, verso, lower left corner: William Koller (Lugt 2632) Stamp, in purple, lower right corner: Peoli (Lugt 2020)

Provenance

between 1860 and 1870, drawings sale, Franz Baumgartner (Vienna, Austria). February 1872, Wilhelm Koller sale (Vienna, Austria). J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)

May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 70. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA

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Published References

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 272-273, no. A9.

Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, p. 244, cat. 194 (ill.).

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Italian; after Michelangelo, A Group of Soldiers from the Crucifixion of Saint Peter, after 1550, red chalk over a preliminary drawing in black chalk on cream antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR175.

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