Seated Female Figure (the Virgin; for a Composition of the Annunciation or the Risen Christ Appearing to His Mother)

1550–64
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Seated Female Figure (the Virgin; for a Composition of the Annunciation or the Risen Christ Appearing to His Mother)
  • Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome)
  • Date: 1550–64
  • Medium: Black chalk, on off-white paper
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 7 7/8 in. (22.1 x 20 cm)
    Framed: 23 3/4 × 17 11/16 × 15/16 in. (60.4 × 45 × 2.4 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Presented by a Body of Subscribers, 1846; WA1846.91(KP II 345)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints