Study after Michelangelo's Saint Damian, ca. between 1545 and 1550

  • Tintoretto, Italian, 1519-1594

Black chalk, heightened with white on beige paper

  • Sheet: 11 9/16 inches × 8 inches (29.4 × 20.3 cm)
  • 18 inches × 15 3/16 inches × 1 3/16 inches (45.7 × 38.6 × 3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

34.153

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Charles Albert de Burlet (Berlin, Germany)

1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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.).

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.