Zittend naakt uit de Sixtijnse kapel., Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert (attributed to), after Maarten van Heemskerck, after Michelangelo, 1551

Title(s)

Zittend naakt uit de Sixtijnse kapel.
Michelangelo's ignudi uit de Sixtijnse kapel (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1889-A-14159

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 139
• The Illustrated Bartsch 75-.9
• New Hollstein Dutch 561
  Remark: Heemskerck

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Zittende naakte jongeman, in profiel naar links. Uit serie van 20 prenten met Michelangelo's naakten in de Sixtijnse kapel.

Artist

• print maker: Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert (attributed to)
• after design by: Maarten van Heemskerck (attributed to)
• after painting by: Michelangelo (attributed to)
• print maker: Cornelis Bos (rejected attribution)

Place

print maker: Haarlem
after design by: Haarlem
after painting by: Rome
print maker: Antwerp

Dating

1551

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height c. 216 mm × width c. 139 mm

What

• the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa)

Acquisition

purchase Mar-1889

Copyright

Public domain

• Brun - Coques, p. 239, cat.nr. 139
• Maarten van Heemskerck, p. 228; p. 231 (afb.), cat.nr. 561
• The illustrated Bartsch, p. 277 (afb.), cat.nr. 75.9