Portrait of Michelangelo in a Fur Cap

Jacob Bos, Netherlandish, about 1520 - about 1580
after Unknown Italian, Italian

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about 1555

Engraving on laid paper

Plate: 7 1/8 × 6 1/8 in. (18.1 × 15.5 cm)

Sheet: 7 5/16 × 6 1/4 in. (18.5 × 15.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund

2007.42

Geography

Place Made: Netherlands, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in plate, lower center: I.B.; inscribed, in plate, center: [ornamental frame] MICHAEL ANGELVS BONAROTUS PATRITIVS FLORENTINVS AN AGENS LXXXXI; Collector's mark, reverse, stamped, in purple ink, lower center: fürst zu LIECHTENSTEIN / Wien [possibly related to L.4398] Watermark, center, under image: [Hand; glove]

Course History

ARTH 48.07, Michaelangelo's Modernism, Allan Doyle, Spring 2019

Provenance

Prince of Lichtenstein, Vienna [Lugt 4398]; Susan Schulman Printseller, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2007.

Catalogue Raisonne

Hollstein, F. W. H., Dutch, Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts, circa 1450-1700, 70 vols. (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949-), vol. 3, no. 10.

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