DrawingsItalian16th century

Ganymede

16th century

Artists

Michelangelo BuonarrotiArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; wings of eagle incised with stylus and damaged, parts then retouched

Culture

Italian

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

36.1 x 27 cm (14 3/16 x 10 5/8 in.) frame: 53.3 x 41.9 x 3.2 cm (21 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Henry Constantine Jennings (L. 2771). Thomas Lawrence (without his mark); [Samuel Woodburn]; William II, King of Holland, his sale, Amsterdam, De Vries, Roos, and Brondgeest, 12 August 1850, lot 153, as "attributed to Michelangelo;" sold to Samuel Woodburn, his sale, London, Christie's, 4 June 1860, lot 137, bought by [dealer?] Enson. Sir John Charles Robinson (L. 1433); his son, Charles Newton Robinson, 1914 (presumably inherited in 1913 from his father). John Hemming Fry; Noel Monod, Greenwich, Conn.; sold to Fogg Art Museum for $1200, 1955.

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