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Title:Male Figure Seen from Rear, after a drawing by Michelangelo
Artist:After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
Artist: After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome)
Date:1508–1600
Medium:Pen and brown ink on brown paper
Dimensions:10 7/8 x 4 3/8 in. (27.6 x 11.1 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887
Accession Number:87.12.69
Copy of a lost drawing by Raphael originally copied form a study of Michelangelo Buonarroti in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. 118)
Signature: 7/8
Marking: Metropolitan Museum of Art collection stamp (Lugt 1943). Annotated in pen and ink "7/8" on the verso.
Cephas G. Thompson (American)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Coles Gallery, Tapestries and Paintings...Drawings by Old Masters," 1895.
Coles Gallery, 8: Tapestries and Paintings, Malachites, Vases, etc.; Drawings by Old Masters, Etchings, Photographs, and Tapestries in Gallery 4, Main Hall. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hand-book, no. 8, New York, 1895, cat. no. 739.
Bernard Berenson "Les Peintures Italiennes de New York et de Boston." in Gazette des Beaux-Arts. vol. 15, 1896, p. 203.
Oskar Fischel Raphaels Zeichnungen. vol. 2, Berlin, 1913, fig. no. fig. 108, ill.
Bryson Burroughs "Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci on Exhibition." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 13, no. 10, New York, October 1918, p. 214.
Konrad Oberhuber "A drawing by Raphael mistakenly attributed to Bandinelli." in Master Drawings. vol. 2, no. 4, 1965, pp. 398-401, ill.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, cat. no. 211, fig. no. 211, p. 215, ill.
Erwin Mitsch Raphael in der Albertina. Exh. cat., Graphische Sammlung Albertina. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, 1983, cat. no. no. 30, p. 98, ill.
Giulio Bora I disegni della collezione Morelli. Bergamo, 1988, p. 66.
Veronika Birke, Janine Kertész Die italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina. Generalverzeichnis Band I: inv. 1-1200. Vienna, Cologne and Weimar, 1992, p. 65, under no. 118.
Paul Joannides Michelangelo and His Influence: Drawings from Windsor Castle Exh. cat. Washington, National Gallery of Art and elsew. (1997-1998). 1997, p. 31, fig. 33 (as Unidentified Artist after Raphael, After Michelangelo).
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