Artworks
Old Master Paintings & Drawings
Workshop of Michelangelo, possibly Piero d'ARGENTA (Active 1497 - 1530)
Studies of Michelangelo’s Galli statue, from the front and behind back, and partial views (recto) Study after a lost drawing by Michelangelo for the Ignudo above the Eritrean Sibyl in the Sistine Chapel (verso), circa 1510-1520
Pen and brown ink on paper
7 1/2 x 5 1/8 in
19 x 13 cm
19 x 13 cm
Further images
Provenance
Christie's, Paris, 21 March 2002, lot 122A (as Florentine school, early 16th century)
Private collection, France
We are grateful to Paul Joannides for suggesting, on basis of photographs, the attribution to Piero d’Argenta on grounds of his proximity to the master.
We are grateful to Paul Joannides for suggesting, on basis of photographs, the attribution to Piero d’Argenta on grounds of his proximity to the master.
Literature
Paul Joannides 2003, pp. 579-80, fig. 34 and 37 (as an « unidentified collaborator of Michelangelo », 1510-20)
Nicholas Turner, in And there was light , 2010, pp. 218-219
Carmen C. Bambach, Michelangelo Divine Draftsman & Designer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, reproduced fig. 118.