'Study for 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: 'Study for 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant': Composition
Date: c.1861
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 16.6 x 14.3 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0467
Inscriptions: None

Description

Study for the composition of the painting 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant' (c.1862, private collection). The composition is virtually the same as the finished painting, although some areas are difficult to make out as its very roughly sketched. 

Provenance

Acquired by Leighton House Museum before 1926 

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.154 (listed under catalogue number 80)