drawing
- Museum number
- 1971,1110.1
- Description
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Studies of the muscles of legs and lower torso of a figure
Pen and brown ink and brown wash
Verso: Study of the muscles of a right arm and shoulder
Pen and brown ink and brown wash
- Production date
- 1529-1554
- Dimensions
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Height: 399 millimetres
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Width: 232 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Anatomical drawings by the same hand are in Princeton, Cleveland, the Uffizi, Florence and the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. A double-sided drawing was sold at Sotheby's, London, 10 July 2002, lot 126.Another was sold at Christie's, New York, 22 January 2004, lot 8.
Lit.: F. Jacobs, '(Dis)assembling: Marsyas, Michelangelo, and the Accademia del Disegno', "Art Bulletin", September 2002, LXXXIV, p. 439, fig. 13
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1971
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1971,1110.1
