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

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant': Hands of Servant
Date: c.1861
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 29.0 x 26.5 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0825
Inscriptions: Inscribed on reverse, centre "298" encircled, crossed out, in blue biro. Inscribed on reverse, lower centre "488" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre right "2/30" in pencil, crossed out sideways. Inscribed on reverse, upper centre "1/3

Description

Study for the hands of the Servant in the painting 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant' (c.1862, private collection). 

Provenance

Christies 

Reproductions

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