A naked man is sitting on a box containing masks and leans on a globe, above him a winged figure blowing the trumpet is surrounded by sleeping, fighting, copulating, masturbating and hard working figures; representing a dream. Engraving by F. van der Steen after N. van Hoey after Michelangelo.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
- Date:
- 1658
- Reference:
- 38974i
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[Brussels Or. Antwerp] : [publisher not identified]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; platemark 33 x 23.3 cm
Lettering
M. Angelus Bona ; 5 alta 4 lata. 12. v. Hoij d. v. Stieen s. S.C.M.
Creator/production credits
L. Dussler, Die Zeichnungen des Michelangelo, Berlin 1959, no. 589
Reference
Wellcome Collection 38974i
Reproduction note
After a painting after Michelangelo's drawing (Dussler loc. cit.), subsequently in the Prince's Gate Collection at the Courtauld Galleries
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