print;
drawing book
- Museum number
- 1896,0528.1.8
- Title
- Series: Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum
- Description
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A male nude with raised arms (St. Sebastian or the crucificion of Haman), his left foot resting on a tree trunk behind him; after Michelangelo. 1671
Etching
- Production date
- 1671
- Dimensions
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Height: 231 millimetres
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Width: 106 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The figure in the etching shows similarities with Cesari's 'St. Sebastian' in the Quadreria of S. Filippo Neri in Naples, despite some differences in both arms and one of the legs. Therefore Van Gelder presumes Bisschop's plate could be based on a lost preparatory drawing for this painting. However, the drawing of Haman by Michelangelo (1895,0915.497) shows striking similarities in the attitude of the body as well.
This etching is one from a series of 25 etchings 'Paradigmata Graphices variorum artificum'; first published in The Hague in 1671. For more information about this edition and other present volumes of 'Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum' in the British Museum see comments of 1850,0810.652-810
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0528.1.8
