Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Although almost nothing is known about Juste de Juste, he was probably among a circle of artists working at Fontainebleau in France in the 1540s. This eccentric composition seems to reference the twisting, turning, and balancing bodies found on the Sistine Chapel ceiling as well as the muscular nude body types associated with Michelangelo. However, the composition itself is a unique invention not derived from any specific part of the ceiling or indeed from life studies.
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Juste de Juste — Pyramid of six Men
Juste de Juste — Pyramid of Men
Maarten van Heemskerck|Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert — Wrestler
Henry Fuseli — Menelaus and Patroclus, after the Antique (re
Paolo Pagani — Studies of Three Naked Men, a Right Arm and a
Sisto Badalocchio|Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi) — S
Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century — Studies 
Maarten van Heemskerck|Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert — Two Wres
Andrea Andreani|Giambologna — Rape of a Sabine Woman
Anonymous, Italian, 17th century — Design for Sculpture
Juste de Juste|Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 1
Jacopo Palma the Younger|Giacomo Franco — Studies of Arms, S