The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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CATALOGUE 79 STUDIO DRAWINGS AND DRAWINGS OF UNDETERMINED STATUS 335

CATALOGUE 79

raffaellodamontelupo (c. 1505–1566)

Recto: Designs for a Chimney-Piece and Other

Studies

Ve rso (now laid down): Figure Studies?

184 6. 132 ;R. 54 ;P.II 411

Dimensions: 221 × 284 mm

Medium

Recto: Pen and ink.

Ve rso (laid down and not now visible): Black chalk.

Condition

Single-sided solid museum mount.

There is overall undulation, surface dirt, and dis-

colouration, with handling dirt visible at the edges and

there are various stains. There is an infilled loss in the

centre. Some areas of the medium show signs of fading,

and there is darkening of some lines.

Inscriptions

Recto: lower left, Robinson’s numbering in graphite: 54.

Lower right, in pen and ink:Miche.

Description

Recto

A.The torso of a standing? woman, largely nude, seen

frontally.

B.Afireplace, seen in elevation, with a concave central

section, surmounted by a cone?. Two large pedestal scrolls

support an entablature at either side, above which, at the

corners, are plinths for statuettes.

C.Drawn over D. A revised version of D, with a double

curved scroll replacing the pincer scroll of D, and the cor-

nice shown in profile with a complex series of mouldings,

akin to those seen in E.

D. The right side of a fireplace, seen in elevation with a

straight entablature, supported by a large pedestal scroll

surmounted by a small pincer scroll. The entablature car-

ries a double curvedS-shaped scroll that runs between

a plinth placed centrally and a smaller rectangular plinth

carrying a sphere on a rod.

E.The arrangement of pedestal and pincer scrolls and the

entablature of D, seen in profile, with the pincer scroll

decorated by leaf forms running left to right. A line rises

diagonally left from the entablature, presumably indicat-

ing a surmounting cone in profile.

F. The arrangement of pedestal and pincer scrolls and the

entablature of D, seen in profile. The leaf forms of the pin-

cer scroll now run left to right and additional curved chan-

nelling is added to the upper part of the pedestal scroll.