About the Artwork
Libyan Sibyl
ca. between 1573 and 1600
(Artist) Italian Michelangelo (Artist) Italian, 1475-1564
Black chalk on dark cream antique laid paper
Sheet: 16 1/16 × 10 inches (40.8 × 25.4 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR173
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper left: 10-8 | 1-5 [underscored] Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, lower right: .D. | L952[E?] Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: ax/ Inscribed, in pen and red ink, verso, lower left: N3219. Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: Copy only Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on fragments of old backing, lower left: 36 | 15
Watermark: [eagle within circle beneath crown, see Briquet no. 207 (1573-76), photocopies are in object file]
Provenance
March 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England). 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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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 273-274, no. A10.
Oleszewski, E.J. "A Design for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling." Bulletin of the DIA 63 (January 1976): pp. 20, 26 (fig. 16).
Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, p. 243, cat. 193 (ill.).
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Italian; after Michelangelo, Libyan Sibyl, ca. between 1573 and 1600, black chalk on dark cream antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR173.
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