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Study of a male nude figure with scale of proportions
Passarotti, Bartolommeo
(Draughtsman)
History note: ?Ercole Lelli (see below) (1702-1766); Francesco Albergati Capacelli (1728-1804); given amongst an album of drawings to Stanislas Augustus II of Poland (1732-1798) in 1776, given to his nephew, Stanislas Poniatowski (1757-1833); his sale, Christie's, 3rd day, 29 May 1840, lot 938, as Michelangelo; bt. Tiffin (£16 5s 6d); W. Russell (1800-1884); his sale, Christie's, 10-12 December 1884, lot 283, together with another copy (as Michelangelo); R.P. Roupell (1795-1886) (does not seem to be mentioned in his sale, Christie's, 13-14 July 1887); Sir E.J. Poynter (Lugt 874 and inscribed on inner mount, E.J.P. 1887); his sale, Sotheby's, 24 April 1918, lot 80, as Michelangelo; bt. Agnew (£96) for Charles B.O. Clarke; Louis C.G. Clarke
Bequeathed 1960.
Height: 446 mm
Width: 299 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1961)
by
Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
There is a scale of proportions running down the right hand side and in the lower left corner there is a diagram of proportions with a skeleton head and left shoulder drawn in
Support: composed of paper
Drawing : Pen, brown ink and black chalk on paper
Inscription present: a diagram with an extended explanation of the larger drawing, extensively annotated
Accession number: PD.122-1961
Primary reference Number: 7664
Lugt: 874
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Drawing"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/7664 Accessed: 2021-12-06 21:01:05
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Accession Number: PD.970-1963
Accession Number: 2251
Accession Number: 2253
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