Michelangelo, ca. 1565

  • Giorgio Ghisi, Italian, 1520-1582
  • Marcello Venusti, Italian, 1512-1579

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 10 1/2 × 7 3/4 inches (26.7 × 19.7 cm) Sheet: 10 5/8 × 7 7/8 inches (27 × 20 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S520

Signed, in plate, below inscription, lower center: GMF [artist's monogram]

Watermark: [obscured by center of image]

Inscribed, in plate, lower center of image: [seven-line inscription in Latin]

May 1885, (F. Keppel & Co., New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Giorgio Ghisi; after Marcello Venusti, Michelangelo, ca. 1565, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S520.