DETAILS
- Artist
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Date
- 1510
- Medium
- red chalk heightened with traces of white
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Drawings
- Culture
- Italy
- Credit line
- Gift in memory of Henry G. Dalton by his nephews George S. Kendrick and Harry D. Kendrick
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