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: 40.0 x 23.5 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0839
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "M. Angelo & Servant" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre right "386 New" in pencil, crossed out. Inscribed on reverse, centre right "6268" encircled, in pencil, crossed out. Inscribed on reverse, centre "492" encircled, in

Description

Upper half of sheet: study for the left hand of the servant in the painting 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant' (c.1862, private collection). Lower half of sheet: study for the right hand of the servant. 

 

Bibliography

• Gaunt, William (introduction), 'High Victorian Art: An Exhibition in Conjunction with the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the York Art Gallery', Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, 1969, p.33, catalogue number 146 

Exhibition history

• 1969, 'High Victorian Art: An Exhibition in Conjunction with the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the York Art Gallery', Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 146