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Dream of Human Life, The

Maker

(artist)
1475-1564

(etcher)
1628-1671

(publisher)
1649-1702

(publisher)
active ca. 1700-1759 (Life dates)

Title

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 22.2 cm
Width: 18.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1978.PG.96

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This late etching focussing on the youth from Michelangelo’s celebrated drawing The Dream was published in the Paradigmata, a compendium of various exemplary master drawings compiled by the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Jan de Bisschop. The inscription states that the print was based on a drawing by Sebastiano del Piombo (1485–1548). However, no such drawing by Sebastiano is known and it is unclear whether this detail of the seated youth was still related by De Bisschop to The Dream or was regarded as an independent image.

Notes

This is plate 11 from the Paradigmata graphices variorum Artificum; voor-Beelden der Teken-Konst van verscheyde Meesters, the first edition published by the printmaker in the Hague, 1671, the second edition was published in Amsterdam by Nic. Visscher. (Michael Bury 2008). Copy after Michelangelo's 'The Dream of Human Life' (D.1978.PG.424).

Provenance

Previous owner : Wilde, Johannes & Seilern, Antoine (Count)

Exhibition History

Michelangelo's Dream, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2010-16/05/2010

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower left of image & recto : : M.A.Bon inv.

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower image towards centre & recto : : Seb.del Piombo d.

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right of image & recto : : JE.f.

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