The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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CATALOGUE 26 WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY AUTOGRAPH SHEETS 153

5. Haarlem, Teyler Museum A 33 recto/VT 58 /Corpus

218 recto; 207 × 247 mm, study for the left leg ofDay

(until 1952 this sheet was mounted with the following;

both bear pen studies for the Laurentianricettoon their

versos, and they were no doubt once parts of the same

sheet, which was at some time divided and then rejoined,

with the loss of at least 10 mm).

6. Haarlem, Teyler Museum A 33 brecto/VT 59 /Corpus

219 ; 202 × 247 mm, studies for the left leg ofDay.

No doubt the present sheet shared a provenance with

those now in Haarlem until the partial dispersal of the

Odescalchi Collection in the early sevententh century. It

is interesting to note that the placing both of theBona

Rotainscription and of Reynolds’ stamp indicates that

the right edge of the sheet was believed to be its base,

despite the fact that this would entail the drawing having

been made by a left-handed draughtsman. It was probably

then thought to be a study for a standingVictory.

History

The Bona Roti Collector; the Irregular Numbering

Collector?; Joachim Sandrart, Pieter Spiering van Silf-

vercroon; Queen Christina; Dezzio Azzolini; Livio

Odescalchi, Duke of Bracciano; Pierre Crozat?; Sir

Joshua Reynolds (L. 2364 ); Sir Thomas Lawrence

(L. 2445 ); Samuel Woodburn.

References

Woodburn,184 2,no. 73 (“Study of the body of a man.”).

Woodburn,184 6,no. 28 (As184 2.). Robinson,187 0,

no. 7 (“[N]ot easy to decide whether this masterly study

was made from nature, or from one of the master’s own

waxorclay models...considerable resemblance to il

Giorno,but the ‘technique’ seems to be of an earlier

period,” c.15 0 1.). Black, 1875 ,p. 213 ,no. 7 .Gotti, 1875 ,

II, p. 233. Berenson, 1903 ,I,p. 211 ,no.15 4 9(ForDay.).

Thode, 1908 ,I,p. 494 (Study for a River God not for

Day.). K. Frey, 1909 – 11 ,no. 218 (Doubtful; life study

reminiscent ofDay.). Thode, 1913 ,no. 391 (After the

same model as [Cat. 26 ]; probably forDay;repudiates

view of 1908 .). Popp, 1922 p. 144 (AfterDaybyan infe-

rior artist.). Berenson, 1938 ,I,p. 221 ,no.15 4 9(As 1903 .).

Goldscheider, 1951 ,no. 59 (“[A]uthenticity...doubtful

[but] quality...high.”). Wilde, 1953 a,p. 85 (ForDay,

15 2 4– 6 ;together with [Cat. 27 ] associated with the series

of studies in the Uffizi and the Teyler Museum.). Wilde,

1953 , exh., no. 43 .Wilde, 1954 ,pp. 15 – 16 (See [Cat. 27 ].).

Parker, 1956 ,no.31 0 (Despite weakness, probably by

Michelangelo. A connexion withDayhas to be assumed.).

Dussler, 1959 ,no. 599 (Rejected.). Berenson, 1961 ,no.