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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1955.75
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People
Copy after Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian (Caprese,
Italy 1475 - 1564 Rome, Italy)
Title
Ganymede
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; wings of
eagle incised with stylus and damaged, parts then
retouched
Dimensions
36.1 x 27 cm (14 3/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
frame: 53.3 x 41.9 x 3.2 cm (21 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription: brown ink on brown paper: Property of /
Noël Monod / Guinea [?] Road / Cos Cob [?] / Conn.
[from old frame backing--now attached to backing
board of current frame]
inscription: Mount, along lower edge, Brown ink,
English: According to Vasari this drawing was made for
a young gentleman call'd Tomaso de Cavalieri by
Michael Angelo in order to encourage, & teach him to
draw.
inscription: verso of mount, brown ink, center: N 29
[effaced] / AH: E. / Michael Angelo Bona rota
inscription: verso of mount, lower left, graphite: 214
inscription: verso of mount, upper left, graphite: 37
[crossed out] / Mieff[?]
collector's mark: l.r. corner, Black ink: L. 1433 (Sir J. C.
Robinson)
collector's mark: l.r. corner, Black ink: L. 2771 (H. C.
Jennings)
Provenance
Henry Constantine Jennings (L. 2771). Thomas
Lawrence (without his mark); [Samuel Woodburn];
William II, King of Holland, his sale, Amsterdam, De
Vries, Roos, and Brondgeest, 12 August 1850, lot 153,
as "attributed to Michelangelo;" sold to Samuel
Woodburn, his sale, London, Christie's, 4 June 1860, lot
137, bought by [dealer?] Enson. Sir John Charles
Robinson (L. 1433); his son, Charles Newton Robinson,
1914 (presumably inherited in 1913 from his father).
John Hemming Fry; Noel Monod, Greenwich, Conn.;
sold to Fogg Art Museum for $1200, 1955.
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Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special
Uses Fund
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
1955.75
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Henry Thode, Michelangelo: Kritische Untersuchungen
über seine werke [3 vols.], G. Grote'sche
Verlagsbuchhandlung (Berlin, Germany, 1908), vol. 2, p.
354 [pp. 350-356 indirect reference] and vol. 3, cat.
no. (377a)...
Karl Frey, Die Handzeichnungen Michelagniolos
Buonarroti [3 vols.], Julius Bard (Berlin, Germany, 1909
- 1911), vol. 3, pp. 11-12 as copy after
Henry Thode, Michelangelo und das Ende der
Renaissance, vol. 3: Der Künstler und seine Werke
(Berlin, 1912), pp. 512ff.
Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine
Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL,
1938), vol. II, under no. 1614, p. 218, as by Marcello
Venusti
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Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic
Themes in the Art of the Renaissance, Oxford University
Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford,
England, 1939), indirect reference f.n. 144, p. 216
[[discussion of Ganymede pp. 212-218]
Charles de Tolnay, Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel,
Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1948), p. 112;
f.n.4 on p. 199; under cat. no. 116, p. 221 [indirect refs to
copies]
Baruch D. Kirschenbaum, "Reflections on
Michelangelo's Drawings for Cavaliere", Gazette des
Beaux-Arts (April 1951 - June 1951), vol. 38, pp. 99-110,
f.n. 6, p. 110
Flight: Fantasy, Faith, Fact. A Loan Exhibition
Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered
Flight 1903-1953 , exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute
(Dayton, OH, 1953), cat. no. 41, p. 7; repr. pl. VI, n.p., as
Michelangelo
Luitpold Dussler, Die Zeichnungen des Michelangelo:
Kritischer Katalog, Gebr. Mann (Berlin, Germany,
1959), under cat. no. 498, p. 234
Anxiety and Elegance: The Human Figure in Italian Art,
1520-1580, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge,
MA, 1962), cat. no. 17, p. 6 as Follower of Michelangelo
The Human Figure in Italian Art, 1520-1580, exh. cat.,
Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1962), cat. no. 17,
p. 6 as Follower of Michelangelo
Charles de Tolnay, The Art and Thought of
Michelangelo, Pantheon Books (New York, NY, 1964), p.
104 and f.n. 31, p. 141; repr. pl. XLI, n.p., as copy after
Builders and Humanists: The Renaissance Popes as
Patrons of the Arts, exh. cat., University of St. Thomas
Art Department (Houston, TX, 1966), cat. no. 36 and
repr. fig. 36, both p. 78, as follower of
6 of 16
Kenneth Clark, Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance,
New York University Press (New York, NY, 1966), p. 13
as copy after
Frederick Hartt, Michelangelo Drawings, Harry N.
Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1970 [?]), under cat. no.
353, p. 249 [indirect reference]
Michael Hirst, "A Drawing of 'The Rape of Ganymede'
by Michelangelo", The Burlington Magazine (March
1975), vol. CXVII, no. 864, p. 166, p. 166, repr. fig. 1
John A. Gere, Drawings by Michelangelo in the
Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle,
the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum and other
English Collections, exh. cat., British Museum
Publications Ltd. and Universe Books (London, England
and New York, NY, 1975), under cat. no. 124, p. 105 as
Michelangelo or "a faithful old copy"
Charles de Tolnay, Corpus dei disegni di Michelangelo,
Istituto Geografico de Agostini-Novara (Novara, 1976),
vol. 2, cat. no. 344, pp. 109-110, and p. 13; repr. pl. 344
color, n.p.
Michael Hirst, "A Drawing of the Rape of Ganymede by
Michelangelo", Essays Presented to Myron P. Gilmore,
vol. II: History of Art. History of Music , ed. Sergio
Bertelli, La Nuova Italia Editrice (Florence, Italy, 1978),
pp. 253-260, pp. 253 ff.; repr. pls. 1 and 2, n.p.
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, Michelangelo und
Tommaso dei Cavalieri; mit der Ubertragung von
Francesco Diaccetos "Panegirico all'amore.", Castrum
Peregrini Presse (Amsterdam, Holland, 1979), pp. 4145, repr. pl. 3, n.p., as copy after
Gerda Kempter, Ganymed: Studien zur Typologie,
Ikonographie und Ikonologie, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne,
1980), pp. 85-90
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo: Hundert
7 of 16
Gedichte; italienisch und deutsch, ed. Franz Rauhut,
Königshausen und Neumann (Würzburg, Germany,
1981), pp. 271-3, repr. as "die beste Kopie"
Howard Hibbard, Caravaggio, Harper & Row (New York,
NY, 1983), text and f.n. 11, p. 157; under note 98, p. 310;
repr. fig. 180, p. 309
William E. Wallace, "Studies in Michelangelo's Finished
Drawings 1520-1534" (1983), Columbia University, pp.
176-184
Anette Kruszynski, Der Ganymed-Mythos in
Emblematik und mythographischer Literatur des 16.
Jahrhunderts, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft Worms
(Worms, 1985), pp. 29-30, fig. 6
Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A
Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art
Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA; New York,
NY, 1985), cat. no. 255, p. 220; repr. same page
James M. Saslow, Ganymede in the Renaissance:
Homosexuality in Art and Society, Yale University Press
(U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 1986), repr. fig. 1.1, p. 20; pp. 1921 as Michelangelo
Rona Goffen, "Renaissance Dreams", Renaissance
Quarterly (Winter 1987), vol. 40, issue 4, pp. 682-706,
pp. 683-691; repr. fig. 1, p. 685
Michael Hirst, Michelangelo and his Drawings, Yale
University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT and London,
England, 1988), pp. 11 (indirect), 112 and 127, repr. pl.
223, n.p.
Michael Hirst, Michelangelo Draftsman, exh. cat.,
Olivetti (Milan, Italy, 1988), under cat. no. 43, p. 103
[indirect reference]
Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan
Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art
Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy,
8 of 16
1988), pp. 12, 30 and 32; repr. fig. 10, p. 21, as
attributed to Michelangelo
Sylvaine Hänsel, Der Spanische Humanist Benito Arias
Montano (1527-1598) und die Kunst, Aschendorffsche
Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH & Co. (Münster, Germany,
1991), p. 131, repr. pl. 66 as after Michelangelo
Alexander Perrig, Michelangelo's Drawings: The
Science of Attribution, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New
Haven, CT, 1991), pp. 31, 43-44, 75, 79; repr. pl. 17, n.p.
as Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Poetry of Michelangelo,
Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT and
London, England, 1991), pp. 16 and 37; f.n. 6, p. 153;
repr. TC no. 344, p. 185; f.n. 13, p. 191...
Paul Joannides, "Amputating Michelangelo's Corpus",
Apollo (April 1992), vol. CXXXV, no. 362, pp. 265-66, p.
265
David Rosand, "More or Less Michelangelo", Drawing
(January 1992 - February 1992), vol. XIII, no. 5, pp. 112113, p. 113 [indirect reference]
Herwarth Röttgen, Caravaggio: der irdische Amor, oder
der Sieg der fleischlichen Liebe, Fischer Taschenbuch
(Frankfurt, Germany, 1992), pp. 49-51; repr. fig. 31, p.
50
Pierre Théberge and Pietro Marani, The Genius of the
Sculptor in Michelangelo's Work, exh. cat., The
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada,
1992), pp. 184-186, 343; under cat. no. 108, p. 390;
under cat. no. 109, p. 392...
Laurie Adams, Art and Psychoanalysis, Icon Editions
(New York, NY, 1993), pp. 91-92, repr. fig. 25
William Griswold and Linda Wolk-Simon, Sixteenth-
Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections, exh.
cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY,
9 of 16
1994), under cat. no. 28, f.n.1, p. 34 as "may be" the
original
James J. Wilhelm, ed., Gay and Lesbian Poetry: An
Anthology from Sappho to Michelangelo, Garland
Publishing, Inc. (New York, NY, 1995), p. 319 and repr.
as frontispiece
Corrado Gizzi, Michelangelo e Dante, exh. cat., Electa
(Milan, 1995), repr. p. 46
Christopher Reed, "Gay and Lesbian Art", The
Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner, Grove's Dictionaries
(New York, NY, 1996), vol. 12, pp. 213-220, p. 214; repr.
fig. 1, same page, as Michelangelo
James M. Saslow, "The Unconsummated Portrait:
Michelangelo's Poems About Art", The Eye of the Poet:
Studies in the Reciprocity of the Visual and Literary...,
ed. Amy Golahny, Bucknell University Press
/Associated University Presses (Lewisburg, PA and
London, England, 1996), pp. 79 - 101, f.n. 17, p. 97; repr.
p. 85 as Michelangelo
Paul Joannides, Michelangelo and His Influence:
Drawings from Windsor Castle, exh. cat., National
Gallery of Art/Lund Humphries Publishers (Washington,
D.C. and London, England, 1996), under cat. no. 15, pp.
72 and 74; repr. fig. 56, p. 72, as Michelangelo or after
Stefan Grohé, Rembrandts mythologische Historien,
Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, Germany, 1996), pp. 127-131
and p. 295; repr. fig. 23, p. 126
Martin Kemp, Behind the Picture: Art and Evidence in
the Italian Renaissance, Yale University Press (U.S.)
(New Haven, CT and London, England, 1997), pp. 19798 [indirect reference]
La donation Jacques Petithory au musée Bonnat,
Bayonne: Objets d'art, sculptures, peintures, dessins,
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exh. cat., Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux
(Paris, France, 1997), under cat. no. 229, p. 228, as
"peut-etre" the original
Anthony A. Hughes, Michelangelo, Phaidon Press
Limited (London, England, 1997), p. 235; repr. fig. 156,
p. 238; in color as Michelangelo, c. 1533
Sylvia Ferino Pagden, Vittoria Colonna: Dichterin und
Muse Michelangelos, exh. cat., Kunsthistorisches
Museum (Vienna, Austria, 1997), cat. no. IV.8, pp. 327329; repr. as Michelangelo (?), p. 328
Ernst-Gerhard Güse and Alexander Perrig,
Zeichnungen aus der Toskana: Das Zeitalter
Michelangelos, exh. cat., Saarland Museum and
Prestel-Verlag (Saarbrücken and Munich/New York,
1997), cat. no. 33, pp. 131-132, and p. 19; repr. color p.
132 and cover
Zeichnungen aus der Toskana: Das Zeitalter
Michelangelos [Gallery guide], brochure, Saarland
Museum (Saarbrücken, Germany, 1997), repr. color on
cover
Richard Rambuss, Closet Devotions, Duke University
Press (Durham, NC and London, England, 1998), p. 54,
repr. fig. 9
Gilles Néret, Michel-Ange 1475-1564, Taschen
(Cologne, Germany, 1998), repr. p. 1 (detail)
Lene Østermark-Johansen, Sweetness and Strength:
The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian
England, Ashgate Publishing Company (Aldershot,
Hants, England and Brookfield, VT, 1998), pp. 196-200;
repr. pl. 56, p.199, as an "autograph modello" (f.n. 20,
p. 290)
Terence Maloon and Peter Raissis, Michelangelo to
Matisse: Drawing the Figure, exh. cat., Art Gallery of
New South Wales (Sydney, Australia, 1999), pp. 33-36,
11 of 16
repr.
Gilles Néret, Mikhelag'elo, 1475-1564, Benedikt
Taschen Verlag (Cologne, Germany, 1999), detail repr.
frontispiece
James M. Saslow, Pictures and Passions: A History of
Homosexuality in the Visual Arts, Viking Press (New
York, NY, 1999), p. 99; repr. fig. 3.11, p. 100
Barbara A. Simerka, ed., Echoes and Inscriptions:
Comparative Approaches to Early Modern Spanish
Literatures, Bucknell University Press (Lewisburg, PA,
2000), p. 259, repr. p. 260
Warren Kirkendale, Emilio de' Cavalieri "gentiluomo
romano": His life and letters, his role as superintendent
of all the arts at the Medici court, and his musical
compositions, ed. Lorenzo Bianconi, Leo S. Olschki
(Florence, Italy, 2001), f.n. 52, p. 38; repr. pl. 21, n.p.;
general refs. to Ganymede pp. 36-38
Lucilla Bardeschi Ciulich and Pina Ragioneri, ed., Vita
di Michelangelo, exh. cat., Mandragora (Florence,
2001), p. 92
Roderick Conway Morris, "Aspects of Love in
Michelangelo: 'Myth of Ganymede' Exhibit Explores
Subtexts of Sexuality", International Herald Tribune,
International Herald Tribune (July 20, 2002 - July 21,
2002), p. 8, repr.
Alan Riding, "In Florence, Michelangelo Has His
Moment", The New York Times, New York Times (New
York, NY, August 20, 2002), pp. B1 and B4, repr. p. B4 in
color
David Rosand, Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic
Expression and Representation, Cambridge University
Press (U.K.) (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 186-190, 373 (n.
15), repr. fig. 176, p. 188
Marcella Marongiu, Il mito di Ganimede prima e dopo
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Michelangelo, exh. cat., Mandragora (Florence, 2002),
cat. no. 18, p. 74, repr. and on cover [For full citation see
public notes]
Maria Ruvoldt, "Michelangelo's Dream", The Art Bulletin
(March 2003), vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 86-113, p. 93; repr. fig.
8, same page
Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization,
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (Cambridge,
MA and London, England, 2003), p. 274, repr. p. 275,
fig. 50
Paul Joannides, Michel-Ange, élèves et copistes,
Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 2003), pp. 229,
230, 231, 234
Review of Paul Joannides, "Michel-Ange, élèves et
copistes", Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte (2004), 67, p.
561
Maria Ruvoldt, The Italian Renaissance Imagery of
Inspiration: Metaphors of Sex, Sleep, and Dreams,
Cambridge University Press (U.K.) (Cambridge, 2004),
p. 157-160, repr. fig. 53
Old Master and 19th Century Drawings, auct. cat.,
Christie's, New York (New York, NY, January 25, 2005),
under cat. no. 32, p. 39
"Die Sammlung des Tommaso de' Cavalieri und die
Provenienz der Zeichnungen Michelangelos",
Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana (2006
(2008)), 37, pp. 163-221, pp. 168-169, ill. 8
Frank Zöllner, Christof Thoenes, and Thomas Pöpper,
Michelangelo 1475-1564: Complete Works, Taschen
GmbH (Cologne, 2007), pp. 259-260, 589, 752, Cat.
D200, repr. pp. 257, 599
Andreas Schumacher, Michelangelos 'teste divine:'
Idealbildnisse als Exempla der Zeichenkunst, Rhema
(Münster, 2007), pp. 23, 44, 51, 58-60, 67, 73-74, 169-
13 of 16
172, 272, fig. 20
Old Master Paintings including Property from the J.
Paul Getty Museum , auct. cat., Sotheby's, Amsterdam
(Amsterdam, May 8, 2007), under no. 61
Lucy Whitaker and Martin Clayton, ed., The Art of Italy
in the Royal Collection: Renaissance and Baroque, exh.
cat., Royal Collection, U.K. (London, 2007), p. 96
Edward J. Olszewski, A Corpus of Drawings in
Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian
Drawings, Harvey Miller/Brepols Publishers (London,
2008), under cat. no. 385, fig. 385a
M. van den Doel, Ficino en het voorstellingsvernogen
phantasia en imaginatio in kunst en theorie van de
Renaissance (Hoofd-Hart-Handen, 2008), pp. 185-189,
204-207, 218-220, 364, fig. 62
Thomas Ketelsen, "Der Widerstreit der Linien: Zum
Status von Zeichnung und Stich(el) bei Vasari und van
Mander", Druckgraphik: Zwischen Reproduktion und
Invention, Deutscher Kunstverlag (Berlin/Munich, 2010),
pp. 205-221, pp. 213-214, pl. 10
Charles Davis, "Michelangelo Drawings" [review of
"Michelangelo: The Drawings of a Genius," Albertina],
The Burlington Magazine (December 2010), CLII, no.
1293, pp. 828-829, p. 829
Maria Teresa Caracciolo and Isabelle Mayer-Michalon,
Lucien Bonaparte: Un homme libre, 1775-1840, exh.
cat., Silvana Editoriale (Milan, 2010), p. 248
Bernadine Barnes, Michelangelo in Print:
Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century,
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. (Farnham, Surrey, England,
2010), pp. 55, 57, 60, repr. p. 56 as fig. 3.1
Stephanie Buck, ed., Michelangelo's Dream , exh. cat.,
The Courtauld Gallery (London, 2010), pp. 118-122, cat.
no. 3, repr., fig. 63 (detail), fig. 73 (detail), p. 105
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Leonard Barkan, Michelangelo: A Life on Paper,
Princeton University Press (Princeton and Oxford, 2011),
pp. 227, 228, repr. p. 228 as fig. 6-46.
Achim Gnann, Michelangelo: The Drawings of a Genius,
exh. cat., Albertina Museum (Vienna, 2011), cat. no. 83,
repr., p. 24, repr. p. 24 (detail)
Jeremy Wood, Rubens: Copies and Adaptations From
Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Artists. III. Artists
Working in Central Italy and France, Harvey Miller
Publishers (London, England, 2011), vol I: under cat. no.
195 p. 202; vol II: p. 7 (no. 86 in list of illustrations), repr.
as fig. 86
Patricia Lee Rubin, "Art History from the Bottom Up",
Art History (April 2013), 36, pp. 280-309, p. 294, repr.
p. 293 as fig. 10
Caravaggesque Italian Painters: Painters of Reality,
auct. cat., Galerie G. Sarti (Paris, 2013), p. 43, fig. 1
Johann Kräftner, ed., Menschenbilder - Götterwelten:
The Worlds of Gods and Men, exh. cat., Christian
Brandstätter Verlag/Liechtenstein Museum (Vienna,
2016), p. 124, 126, repr. p. 124
Exhibition History
Flight: Fantasy, Faith, Fact. A Loan Exhibition
Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered
Flight 1903-1953 , Dayton Art Institute, Dayton,
12/17/1953 - 02/21/1954
Anxiety and Elegance: The Human Figure in Italian Art,
1520-1580, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/01/1962
- 05/25/1962
Builders and Humanists: The Renaissance Popes as
Patrons of the Arts, University of St. Thomas Art
Department, Houston, 03/24/1966 - 05/08/1966
Il mito di Ganimede prima e dopo Michelangelo, Ente
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Casa Buonarroti, Firenze, 06/18/2002 - 09/30/2002
Michelangelo's Dream , The Courtauld Gallery,
02/18/2010 - 05/16/2010
Michelangelo: The Drawings of a Genius, Albertina
Museum, Vienna, 10/07/2010 - 01/09/2011
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but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
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