The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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CATALOGUE 13 WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY AUTOGRAPH SHEETS 109

C.A seated figure in left profile, tried in two positions:

the first leaning back; the second upright and stiff.

The curved line above this figure to the right would suggest that

Michelangelo considered momentarily setting a figure against

the prevailing outward facing poses of the ancestors.

D. A seated nude male figure seen frontally, leaning to his

right against the curve of a window.

Afirst idea for the sleeping figure on the left of thePhares-Esron-

Aramlunette, taken further in reverse on Cat. 11 versoFand

reversed again on Cat. 15 recto A to the original pose as here,

and as finally executed.

E.A standing nude figure in right profile with legs crossed

at the calves, perhaps holding a cup, leaning against the

upper curve of the window.

Perhaps a first idea for the female figure at the left of the

Naasonlunette; developed further in a drawing in Florence

(CB 24 F/B 242 /Corpus 160 ;black chalk,15 0× 122 mm; this

sheet, although similar in size to those of the present sketch-

book, did not form part of it; as noted by Hirst, 1986 a,p. 216 ,

the paper texture and chain-lines differ) in which, however,

the figure is male. Another drawing in Florence (CB 39 F/B

234 /Corpus 303 ; pen and ink over black chalk, 278 × 197 mm),

which represents a standing female figure in right profile bend-

ing forward, was erroneously connected with this fresco by the

compiler, but it was no doubt made somewhat earlier for an

unidentified project and in part reprised in theNaasonfigure.

F. A lighter sketch of E.

Copy

Fonthe recto was copied in pen c.15 8 0byAndrea Com-

modi on Uffizi 18654 Frecto.

References

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

no. 2. Fisher, 1852 ,p. 1 , pl. 2 , left (Recto); pl. 3 ,

right (Verso). Fisher, 1865 ,p. 16 ,I,pl. 2 , left (Recto);

pl. 3 ,right (Verso). Robinson,187 0,no. 25. 1 (Michel

Angelo. Recto: only [A] a sketch forIonasrecognis-

able. Verso: one sketch [A] “seems to correspond with