A Group of Soldiers from the Crucifixion of Saint Peter

after 1550

Italian , Artist After Michelangelo , Artist

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About the Artwork

Title A Group of Soldiers from the Crucifixion of Saint Peter

Artwork Date after 1550

Makers (Artist) Italian After Michelangelo (Artist) Italian, 1475-1564

Medium Red chalk over a preliminary drawing in black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 16 × 9 5/8 inches (40.6 × 24.4 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1SDR175

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper left corner: [indecipherable] Inscribed, in black chalk, verso, center: 23 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, along lower edge: gekauft von Baumgartner 1864 2 OWf [E?]--Alte Zeichnung nach Michel Angelo

Marks Watermark: [circle within six-pointed star within circle to which a small Latin cross is attached] Stamp, in black, verso, lower left corner: William Koller (Lugt 2632) Stamp, in purple, lower right corner: Peoli (Lugt 2020)

Provenance

between 1860 and 1870, drawings sale, Franz Baumgartner (Vienna, Austria).
February 1872, Wilhelm Koller sale (Vienna, Austria).
J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA);
May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 70.
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA

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Published References

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 272-273, no. A9.

Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, p. 244, cat. 194 (ill.).

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Italian; after Michelangelo, A Group of Soldiers from the Crucifixion of Saint Peter, after 1550, red chalk over a preliminary drawing in black chalk on cream antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR175.