Provenance
Sir John Charles Robinson [1824-1913], London; sold to John Malcolm [1805-1893], Poltalloch; by inheritance to his son-in-law, Alfred E. Gathorne-Hardy; by descent to his son, Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy; gift to his cousin, Robert Gathorne-Hardy; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 April 1976, no. 14); Armand Hammer, Los Angeles; gift 1991 to NGA [note: no collectors' marks visible on sheet as object is currently matted].
Exhibition History
- 1953
- An Exhibition of Drawings by Michelangelo Belonging to H.M the Queen, the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum and other English Collections, British Museum, London, 1953, no. 128.
- 1965
- Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art, 1520-1600, City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1965, no. 338.
- 1971
- Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, P.& D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, 1971; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, no. 9.
- 1975
- Drawings by Michelangelo, British Museum, London, 1975, no. 156.
- 1976
- Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1976, starting with Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, 1976.
- 1976
- Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.
- 1976
- Old Master Drawings from the Gathorne-Hardy Collection, Sotheby & Co., London, 1976, no. 14.
- 1978
- Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, p. 40.
- 1988
- Michelangelo: Draftsman, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1988, no. 56 (recto only).
Bibliography
- 1902
- Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings...in the Possession of the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy, London, 1902, no. 7.
- 1903
- Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of Florentine Painters, New York, 1903, vol 2, no. 1540.
- 1913
- Thode, Henry. Michelangelo: kritische Untersuchungen über seine Werke, Berlin, 1913: 163, no. 368.
- 1938
- Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, Chicago, 1938, vol. 3, no. 1544b, fig. 717 (recto).
- 1953
- Wilde, Johannes. Italian Drawings...in the British Museum, Michelangelo and His Studio. London, 1953: 15, no. 75.
- 1959
- Dussler, Luitpold. Die Zeichnungen des Michelangelo, Berlin, 1959, no. 338, plate 136 (recto).
- 1960
- De Tolnay, Charles. Michelangelo, the Final Period. Princeton, N.J., 1960: 206, no. 219, plate 197.
- 1961
- Bernard Berenson, I disegni dei pittori fiorentini, Milan, 1961, vol. 2, no. 1544b.
- 1971
- Hartt, Frederick. The Drawings of Michelangelo. London, 1971: 352, no. 509 (recto).
- 1975
- Joannides, Paul. "Review of the Exhibition 'Drawings by Michelangelo' at the British Museum." The Burlington Magazine, vol. 117 (1975): 262.
- 1978
- De Tolnay, Charles. Corpus dei Disegni di Michelangelo, Novara, 1978, no. 429 (no illus.).
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 664, no. 1050, color repro. of recto.
- 2007
- Joannides, Paul. The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum. Cambridge, 2007: 236 and 245
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