ID 1177113
Lot 131 | MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (CAPRESE 1475-1564 ROME)
Estimate value
$ 6 000 – 8 000
Diagram of a rectangular block of marble
inscribed ‘simile’; mounted on a bifolium inscribed by Cosimo Buonarroti and by John Bowring (see Provenance)
pen and brown ink
1 4⁄5 x 2 3⁄5 in. (4.6 x 6 cm)
Provenance
Cosimo Buonarroti (1790-1858), Florence (according to handwritten notes on letter paper attached to the drawing ‘L’ Aud: [for ‘Auditore’] Cosimo Buonarroti offriva/ l’accluso saggio del carattere del/ suo illustre antenato Michelangelo/al Sig. D. Bowring in segno di/ particolare stima il di 3 9bre 1836’, and ‘Florence 3 9ber 1836/ The enclosed writing and outline of / Michael Angelo was given on this/ day by his descendant Cosimo/ Buonarroti/ John Bowring’).
John Bowring (1792-1872), Exeter (according to the handwritten notes attached to the drawing quoted above).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 1 July 1986, lot 40 (attached to the back of the frame).
Literature
P. Joannides, The Drawings of Michelangelo and his Followers in the Ashmolean Museum, Cambridge, 2003, p. 23.
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