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Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius. Verso: Right Arm and Torso of a Female Figure, after Michelangelo

Italian School
16th century

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius. Verso: Right Arm and Torso of a Female Figure, after Michelangelo

ca. 1536-1540
2 15/16 x 3 1/16 inches (75 x 77 mm); mount: 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 (115 x 114 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper; verso: pen and brown ink, over red chalk.
1993.110

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Copy after statue of Marcus Aurelius; verso: copy after Michelangelo's "Notte".
Watermark: none.
Description

Konrad Oberhuber first noticed that the recto is a copy of the antique bronze monument to Marcus Aurelius in Rome (or a small-scale copy after it) and that the study on the verso copies Michelangelo’s Night from the tomb of Duke Giuliano de’ Medici in the Medici Chapel at San Lorenzo, Florence (unpublished observation recorded in curatorial file, 1964).

Associated names
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, after.
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Oakland and San Francisco 1959, no. 43 (as Paduan, ca. 1500); Philadelphia and Detroit 1960-61, no. 154 (as Anonymous Italian School 15th century).
Neumeyer, Alfred, and János Scholz. Venetian Drawings 1400-1630. Oakland, Calif. : Mills College Art Gallery, 1959, no. 43.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department