A Group of Figures from Michelangelo
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Cardboard, Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
114 mm (H)159 mm (W)157 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872792
Summary
Pencil drawing on tracing paper (figure drawing); a group of three figures, central a sitting man his chin leaned on his left fist, seen in profile, looking left, with his right hand holding a nude standing boy, behinde him another male figure, peeping out over the neck of the other man.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1962 and given to NT as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley.
Marks and inscriptions
bottom right; 'Michelangelo'
Makers and roles
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese Michelangelo 1475 - Rome 1564), artist