The creation of the world, after Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Jean-Robert Ango (active Rome 1760-1773)
The creation of the world, after Michelangelo Buonarroti
red chalk
5¾ x 8½ in. (14.3 x 21.5 cm.); and A river god, bust length, attributed to Antoine Coypel; Three studies of Renaissance military helmets, attributed to Michel-François Dandré-Bardon; Dogs hunting a wolf, after Jean-Baptiste Oudry; A female nude, standing, her right arm lifted, French School, 18th Century
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Provenance

Probably anonymous sale; Paris, Palais Galliera, 30 March 1964, part of lot 1.

Lot Essay

Ango made several copies after Michelangelo’s Sixtine Chapel, some of which are sketchier like the present sheet, others which are more finished. The present drawing was probably part of a series of four albums from the collection of the Bailli de Breteuil (see S. Boyer, ‘Quelques propositions autour de Jean-Robert Ango’, Les cahiers d’histoire de l’art, no. 6, 2008, p. 940).
We are grateful to Sarah Boyer for confirming the attribution on the basis of a digital photograph and for her assistance with the cataloguing of the drawing.

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