The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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C.Aright foot.

The right foot of B, re-studied.

D.A curved line rising from a horizontal.

Perhaps the indication of a window.

With the top edge as base

E.A seated man facing half left, his right leg raised and

bent at the knee, and writing.

Perhaps a preliminary idea for the left-hand figure in theAsa-

Iosaphat-Ioramlunette. It may be that Michelangelo inverted

the page in order to remind himself that this lunette was on the

opposite side of the vault from theRoboam-Abiaslunette. This

figure was developed further on Cat. 17.

Verso

A.Aseated figure in right profile, resting against the

curve of the window, half turned inwards, looking at

something on his crossed legs.

Presumably an idea for an Ancestor that was not pursued.

B.A seated figure in right profile bending forward.

Perhaps Michelangelo’s first idea for the right-hand figure in

theRoboam-Abiaslunette; developed further in Cat. 9 recto B

and in A on the recto of the present sheet.

C.Aseated figure in right profile, resting against the

curve of the window, the right leg drawn back.

Perhaps a sketch for the right-hand figure in theSalmon-Booz-

Obethlunette.

D.A standing figure in left profile, his right knee raised

on a block, reading a sheet of paper, facing into the curve

of the window.

Perhaps a preliminary idea, employed in reverse, for the standing

figure at the left facing inwards in theNaasonlunette.

References

Ottley, 1808 – 23 ,p. 29 .Woodburn, 1836 b, included in

no. 50. Fisher, 1852 ,p. 1 , pl. 8 ,right (Recto.); pl. 9 ,

left (Verso.). Fisher, 1865 ,p. 16 ,I,pl. 8 ,right (Recto.);

pl. 9 , left (Verso.). Robinson,187 0,no. 24. 4 (Michel