About the Artwork
Study after Michelangelo's Saint Damian
ca. between 1545 and 1550
Tintoretto
1519-1594
Italian
Venetian
Black chalk, heightened with white on beige paper
Sheet: 11 9/16 inches × 8 inches (29.4 × 20.3 cm) Framed: 18 inches × 15 3/16 inches × 1 3/16 inches (45.7 × 38.6 × 3 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
34.153
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Charles Albert de Burlet (Berlin, Germany)
1934-present, purchase by 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. 62-63, no. 18, p. 25 (pl. ix).
Newberry Jr., John S. Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1950, no. 52.
"Rearrangements of the Museum's Collections." Bulletin of the DIA 14, 2 (November 1934): pp. 28-30, p. 30, (ill.).
Rossi, Paola. I Disegni Di Jacopo Tintoretto. Florence, 1975, p. 61.
Scheyer, Ernst. "Drawings by Correggio." Bulletin of the DIA 18, 8 (May 1937): pp. 127-130, no. 32.
Smith, Grahm. "Tintoretto and Michelangelo's St. Damian." The Burlington Magazine 123 (1981): p. 614 (fig. 38).
Tietze Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of Venetian Painters in the XV and XVI Centuries. New York, 1944, p. 280, no. 1579.
Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 2, p. 461, cat. 365 (ill.).
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Tintoretto, Study after Michelangelo's Saint Damian, ca. between 1545 and 1550, black chalk, heightened with white on beige paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.153.
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