Study after a Painting by Jacopino del Conte

Drawing details

Title: Study after a Painting by Jacopino del Conte
Date: c.1856
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 13.2 x 9.7 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/1190
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left "No 116" in pencil.

Interpretation

This study was probably traced from a drawing entitled 'Study After a Painting by Jacopino del Conte', at Leighton House Museum (reference number LHO/D/0465), which is dated 1856. The study may have been the inspiration for the face of Michelangelo in Leighton's painting 'Michel Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant' (c.1862, private collection).

Description

Tracing of a portrait of Michelangelo, possibly the 'Strozzi' version of a painting by Jacopino del Conte (Italian painter, c.1510-1598) in the Uffizi Museum, Florence, (the original of which is now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York). This tracing is probably later and is likely to be connected with Leighton's painting of 'Michelangelo Nursing his Dying Servant' (c.1862, private collection). 

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his sisters, Mrs. Augusta Matthews (nTe Augusta Neunburg Leighton, 1835-1919) and Mrs. Alexandra Orr (nTe Alexandra Leighton, 1828-1903); presented to the Royal Academy of Arts, London by Matthews and Orr in 1896