The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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326 STUDIO DRAWINGS AND DRAWINGS OF UNDETERMINED STATUS CATALOGUE 76

Dimensions: 282 × 432 mm

Watermark: Crossed Arrows with crescent. Robinson

Appendix no. 9.

Medium

Penand ink, with black chalk and touches of red.

Condition

Recto: There are various creases, particularly near the top

edge, and a diagonal crease near the bottom in the centre.

There are old repairs on the tears along the central vertical

fold line and a large diagonal tear at the top left corner.

The losses at the bottom corners and the one at the top

edge have been filled. There are various minor tears and

patches of skinning at the edges. The figure left of centre

has suffered both abrasion and skinning.

Verso: The repairs are more visible on this side. There

is minor foxing and some show-through from the

recto.

Inscriptions

Recto: Small black chalk inscription below A:Michel

angelo;inscription in black chalk beside A:Du Tombeau des

M ́edicis

Description

Recto

A.Acopy after a model for or after theEvening.

B.Amale torso with outstretched right arm, seen from

the back.

C.Immediately below B. Copy after a model for a seated

Duke?, nude, seen in left profile.

With the left edge as base

D.Atorso seen in left profile slightly from below, prob-

ably after a reduction of theBelvedere Torsorather than

the original. Some heavy hatching at the base of the

figure.

E.Aseated nude male seen in right profile. Perhaps after

alost drawing by Michelangelo for a Sistineignudo.

F.Afemale head with a helmet in left profile, in black

chalk.

G.Abearded head seen in three-quarter view.

Verso

The verso was evidently folded, probably by the artist,

and used in different directions, with the left half probably

used directly after the right half. This side of the sheet is

here treated as two successive pages.