Specifications
| Title | Studies of an Outstretched Right Forearm |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is travelling |
| Dimensions |
Width 160 mm Height 205 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Michelangelo Buonarroti
|
| Accession number | I 513 verso (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1508 |
| Watermark | Highly stylized (treble) flower, in profile, with stem and two leaves (67 x 31 mm, upside-down to the right of the center, between P4-5 of 6P, vH, cropped folio, esp. at top and right); very rare, nothing similar in Briquet (vol. 2, fleur), nor in Piccard Online, nor in Roberts 1988. A different subtype of flower watermark is present in Michelangelo's early study sheet for the Cascina project, dated c. 1503-04, now in the British Museum, inv. 1895,0915.496 (Roberts 1988, p. 21, FlowerD, ill.; Wilde 1953, no. 3; De Tolnay 1975-80, no. 36) |
| Inscriptions | '81' (recto, below centre, pen and brown ink) |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Mark | F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a deest) |
| Provenance | Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1929; D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen |
| Exhibitions | Rotterdam 1997-98; Rotterdam 2009 (coll 2 kw 1); Vienna 2010, no. 32; Tefaf 2016; Rotterdam 2016 (Rondom Fra B.); New York 2017, no. 56, 57 |
| Internal exhibitions |
De Collectie Twee - wissel III, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009) TEFAF - Collecting Collectors (2016) Rondom Fra Bartolommeo (2016) |
| External exhibitions |
Michelangelo. The Drawings of a Genius (2010) Michelangelo Divine Draftsman and Designer (2017) Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael. Florence, circa 1504 (2024) |
| Research |
Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600 |
| Literature | Berenson 1938, no. 1676C (Michelangelo School); Wilde 1953, p. 16, under no. 6, p. 124, under no. 86; Dussler 1959, no. 692, fig. 168, 169 (copies); Barocchi 1962, p. 31, under no. 20; Hartt 1971, pp. 47, 54, 80, 92, no. 33, no. 68, ill. (Michelangelo); De Tolnay 1975-80, vol. 1 (1975), no. 121; Hirst 1986, pp. 208-212; Hirst 1988, pp. 71, 125; Zöllner-Thoenes-Pöpper 2007, p. 755 (not Michelangelo); Joannides 2007, pp. 36, 486; Gnann 2010, no. 32, ill.; Collectieboek 2011, p. 137, ill.; Joannides 2013, pp. 36, 237-242, 246, 249-250, 486, fig. 1, 2, 14, 16; Bambach 2017, pp. 84, 89, 295, no. 56, 57, ill. |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | Italy > Southern Europe > Europe |
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