'Studies for 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant': Hands of Michael Angelo

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Drawing details

Title: 'Studies for 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant': Hands of Michael Angelo
Date: c.1861
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 42.0 x 24.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0472
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower centre "M Angelo & Servant" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "H94" encircled, in pencil. Centre "2 / 32" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, upper left "472" in pencil.

Description

Upper half of sheet: study for the right hand of Michelangelo in the painting 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant' (c.1862, private collection). Lower half of sheet: study for the left hand of Michelangelo. Part of the object he holds and the sleeve are also indicated. 

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his sisters, Mrs. Augusta Matthews (n+e Augusta Neunburg Leighton, 1835-1919) and Mrs. Alexandra Orr (n+e Alexandra Leighton, 1828-1903); purchased by the Fine Art Society in 1896; collection of Leighton House Museum 

Bibliography

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