The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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after a lost sketch by Michelangelo. But in their

thin and wavering lines, the three drawings are to all

intents and purposes identical in style.

Nevertheless, the fact that the two drawings on W 34

weremade after immediately contemporary work by

Mini’s master might encourage one to think that the

original of the present drawing could also be dated to

the15 2 0s. However, the character of the pen copy of

the same lost drawing in the British Museum very much

supports the view that the original was made around the

middle of the first decade. Thus it would seem that the

young Mini was set to – or permitted to – copy drawings

from different periods of his master’s work.

Drawn Copies

1. British Museum, 1946 - 7 - 13 - 635 ; pen and ink, 306 ×

460 mm; attributed to – but in the compiler’s view not

by–Raffaello da Montelupo. A copy of this group,

the same size as the present drawing and the presumed

original; this page (published by Joannides, 2002 b,tav.

11 ) contains several other copies of lost Michelangelo

sketches probably made for theBattle of Cascinaand a

part copy of the autograph studies on Haarlem A 28

verso /VT 51 /Corpus 108 ; pen and ink over red chalk,

285 × 207 mm.

2. Weimar, Kunstsammlung, KK 8797 verso; 390 × 239

mm, black chalk. A copy of this group, probably the same

size as the present drawing and the presumed original;

this page also contains copies, laid out differently from

the original, of the autograph studies on Haarlem A 28

verso /VT 51 /Corpus 108 ; pen and ink over red chalk,

285 × 207 mm.

See Cat. 40 for a brief discussion of the recto of this

sheet.

History

Casa Buonarroti; Jean-Baptiste Wicar?; William Young

Ottley, his sale, 11 April 1804 and days following, part

of lot 270? (“Five – various pen studies of figures and

architecture – some of his writing on the back of three –

from the Bonarroti collection.”); his sale, 6 June 1814 and

days following, lot 261 ii (“Two – an architectural design