The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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114 WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY AUTOGRAPH SHEETS CATALOGUE 15

(Verso: study of standing woman with two children, for

left ofNaasonlunette.). Thode, 1908 ,I,p. 266 (Michelan-

gelo. Recto: [A] forPhares-Esron-Aramlunette. Verso:

woman with two children linked withNaasonlunette.).

K. Frey, 1909 – 11 ,no. 153. 11 (Recto: [A] related to sleeper

inPhares-Esron-Aramlunette.); no.15 4. 16 (Verso: similari-

ties with woman inNaasonlunette.). Thode, 1913 ,no. 414

(As 1908 .). Parker, 1956 ,no. 305 (Recto: [A] forPhares-

Esron-Aramlunette. Verso: woman resembles figure on

left ofNaasonlunette, but children there are omitted.).

Dussler, 1959 ,no. 610 (Recto: link withPhares-Esron-

Aramlunette. Verso: link withNaasonlunette.). Berenson,

1961 , 1703 c (School of Michelangelo. Recto: [A] resem-

bles left-hand figure inPhares-Esron-Aramlunette. Verso:

resembles woman inNaasonlunette.). Hartt, 1971 ,no. 115

(Recto: “powerful” forPhares-Esron-Aram;sketches after

God the Father Separating Light from Darknessprobably

byFalconi.); no. 116 (Verso: for Naason’s wife with

attendant figures later eliminated.). Gere and Turner,

1975 ,no. 30 (Recto). De Tolnay, 1975 , Corpus I, no.

172 (Recto: [A] for left-hand figure in Phares-Esron-

Aramlunette; in reverse like [Cat. 13 versoD]but unlike

[Cat. 11 verso F], which must be later. [B, C, D] sketches

for theGod the Father Separating Light from Darkness,

probably made before those on [Cat. 11 ]. Verso: for

woman inNaasonlunette; light comes from the oppo-

site direction in the fresco; children omitted in fresco.).

Hirst, 1986 a,p. 212 (Notes that [Cat. 15 ]verso orig-

inally faced [Cat. 16 ]verso.); pp. 214 – 15 (Recto: [B,

C, D] “seemingly inchoate jottings for the God the

Father Separating Light from Darkness,preceding those on

[Cat. 11 ]; [A] lit from right.); p. 216 (Verso: idea for

Naasonlunette, developed further on CB 24 F/Corpus

160 which, although similar in size, was never a leaf