Anatomical figure

Physical description

Red wax model on a skeleton of copper wire, an anatomical study of the skeleton, standing, the left knee raised, the right arm hanging down

Place of Origin

Florence, Italy (made)

Date

ca. 1550-1600 (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Wax on copper wire

Dimensions

Height: 479 mm

Object history note

Formerly in the Gherardini Collection of artists’ terracotta and wax models Acquired in 1854

Descriptive line

Red wax model of an anatomical fitgure, Italy (Florence), about 1550-1600

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1854. In: Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol I. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 18.
Maclagan, Eric and Longhurst, Margaret H. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture. Text. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1932, p. 128.
Amerson Price L., Jr. The Problem of the Écorché: A Catalogue Raisonné of Models and Statuettes from the Sixteenth Century and Later Periods. Phd thesis, Pennsylvania Stae University, May 1975, p. 173, fig. 142., n. 56.
Pope-Hennessy, John. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Volume II: Text. Sixteenth to Twentieth Century. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964, p. 429.

Production Note

Formerly ascribed to Michelangelo

Materials

Copper; Wax

Subjects depicted

Skeleton

Categories

Sculpture

Collection code

SCP