After Michelangelo Buonarroti

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1475-1564

Devil Carrying off a Soul, after Michelangelo

Black chalk on paper.

5 1/8 x 4 7/16 inches (130 x 114 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1979.20

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Venusti's version of Michelangelo's "Last Judgement" in the Sistine Chapel, made for Alessandro Farnese and now in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, is the earliest known painted copy after the fresco.
Formerly attributed to Marcello Venusti, Como 1512/15-1579 Rome.

Inscription:

Inscribed on mount, at center, beneath the drawing, in pen and black ink, "Marcello Venusti apressso / Michelangelo."; in the lower right corner in brown ink, "68"; on verso at upper center, in pen and brown ink, with Richardson's pressmarks, "CC 14. / Zs.24.h. / Marcello Venusti Mantovano discepolo di Perino del Vaga, poi amato dal Buonaroti, / per il quale copi ̣il suo Giudizio universale da regalarne il Card: Allessandro Farnese - / Abcedario Pitt.co"; in pencil, "#339 of Walpole Sale #352 / Feb. 1925. N.Y. Bx."; in violet pencil, set in a circle, "23"; in graphite, "N. L(?) Paris".

Provenance:

Comte de Caylus; Jonathan Richardson Sr., London (Lugt 2183); Charles Rogers, London (Lugt 625); Countess Sophy von Hollstein-Rathau, Copenhagen; her sale, New York, Walpole Galleries, 6 February, 1925, lot 339; Max A. Goldstein, St. Louis (no mark; see Lugt 2824); Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Venusti, Marcello, ca. 1512-1579, Formerly attributed to.
Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de, 1692-1765, former owner.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Rogers, Charles, 1711-1784, former owner.
Hollstein-Rathau, Sophie von, C

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 219-220.

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