The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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0521551335 c 06 CUNY 160 /Joannides 052155 133 1 January 11 , 2007 11 : 50

354 COPIES AFTER PAINTINGS CATALOGUE 89

Condition

The sheet is undulating severely. There are some inher-

ent diagonal wrinkles and some handling creases. There

are minor infilled losses, a small edge nick with a

flap of paper still attached, repaired edge tears with

ingrained dirt, abrasion, local staining, and smudging

of the medium. The sheet has some foxing and exten-

sive uneven discolouration with local staining in upper

corners. The primary support is drummed by the four

edges to the backboard of the mount, so the verso is not

visible.

Inscription

Tothe lower right in pen and ink:M.oAngelo fe.Atthe

base of the sheet in pen and ink, the letterD.

Discussion

The drawing contains the colour indications R(osso),

B(ianco), V(erde) in black chalk, perhaps by the artist.

It is closely linked with, perhaps even copied from, a

copy of theIonasin the Louvre (Inv. 741 /J 264 ;black

chalk, 398 × 279 mm, without colour indications), which

seems to the compiler of slightly higher quality. The Lou-

vre drawing has been given both to Daniele da Volterra

and Giulio Clovio. In the compiler’s view, the attribu-

tion to Daniele is closer to the mark, and it may well be

byone of the artists working with him in the late15 4 0s

and in the155 0s, who included some of the most talented

painters of the younger generation, such as Marco Pino

and Pellegrino Tibaldi as well as the Spaniards Navarette

and Gaspar Becerra; drawings by Becerra in particular