'Study for 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant': Head of Servant

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Drawing details

Title: 'Study for 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant': Head of Servant
Date: c.1861
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 42.9 x 29.2 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0469
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Head Michael Angelo" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, upper left "469" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "33" in pencil.

Description

Study for the head of the servant in the painting 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant' (c.1862, private collection). Although this is clearly the same face depicted in the painting, the model appears younger in this drawing. The fabric wrapped around the servant's head is also indicated. 

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)