Lot Essay
This is an early copy after part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Rome.
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The Prophet Jonah
Details
After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-1564 Rome), Italian School, 16th Century
The Prophet Jonah
pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (oxidized in places)
10 7/8 x 8¼ in. (27.5 x 21 cm)
The Prophet Jonah
pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (oxidized in places)
10 7/8 x 8¼ in. (27.5 x 21 cm)
Provenance
Unidentified mark (not in Lugt).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum; with his inscription, attribution and date 'Rugby School Art Museum e dono Matt: H: Bloxam/ 1880/ Michael Angelo' (on the mount).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum; with his inscription, attribution and date 'Rugby School Art Museum e dono Matt: H: Bloxam/ 1880/ Michael Angelo' (on the mount).
Literature
Anne Popham, typescript catalogue, no. 20.
M. Winner, ‘Giona: il linguaggio del corpo’, in La Cappella Sistina. La volta restaurata. Il trionfo del colore, Novara, 1992, p. 110, ill. p. 111, p. 268, n. 14 (as attributed to Giulio Clovio).
P. Costamagna, ‘A propos du séjour Florentin de Giulio Clovio (1498 - 1578)’, Kunst des Cinquecento in der Toskana, M. Cammerer ed., Florence and Munich, 1992, p. 175, n. 17 (as Giulio Clovio).
P. Joannides, 'More on Rubens' interest in Michelangelo and Raphael', Paragone, LVIII, 2006, pp. 32-33 (as retouched by Rubens).
M. Winner, ‘Giona: il linguaggio del corpo’, in La Cappella Sistina. La volta restaurata. Il trionfo del colore, Novara, 1992, p. 110, ill. p. 111, p. 268, n. 14 (as attributed to Giulio Clovio).
P. Costamagna, ‘A propos du séjour Florentin de Giulio Clovio (1498 - 1578)’, Kunst des Cinquecento in der Toskana, M. Cammerer ed., Florence and Munich, 1992, p. 175, n. 17 (as Giulio Clovio).
P. Joannides, 'More on Rubens' interest in Michelangelo and Raphael', Paragone, LVIII, 2006, pp. 32-33 (as retouched by Rubens).
Exhibited
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Michelangelo e la Sistina. La tecnica, il restauro, il mito, 1990, no. 30, ill., p. 157, under no. 32 (entry by A. Nesselrath; as Giulio Clovio).
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