About the Artwork
Michelangelo
ca. 1565
Giorgio Ghisi (Artist) Italian, 1520-1582 Marcello Venusti (Artist) 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)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S520
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in plate, below inscription, lower center: GMF [artist's monogram]
Inscribed, in plate, lower center of image: [seven-line inscription in Latin]
Watermark: [obscured by center of image]
Provenance
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)
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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.
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