The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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CATALOGUES 94–95 COPIES AFTER PAINTINGS 361

strip on the right and to the lower half of that on the left,

which also displays a small loss and stain and tears at the

centre. There are powdery particles on the left edge near

the lower loss. The medium has suffered from abrasion to

some areas, and there is a possible cleavage beginning in

the dense hatched area between the legs. The secondary

support is discoloured to blue-grey-brown.

Discussion

Aweak copy, no doubt indirect. Probably of the sixteenth

century.

History

Reynolds (L. 2364 ); unidentified eighteenth- or nine-

teenth-century sale, Lot 916 ,inred ink; Francis Douce

bequest to the Bodleian Library, 1834 , transferred to the

Ashmolean in 1863.

References

Macandrew, 1980 ,A 24 (Late sixteenth century.).

CATALOGUE 95

The Trumpeting Angels

1863. 771 ; Macandrew A 26

Dimensions: 400 × 633 mm

Medium

Black chalk.

Condition

There is overall discolouration, plus numerous stains and

various small black accretions. The left and right edges

of the sheet are severely torn, and curling, losses, and

abrasions have occurred throughout these areas. There is

severe creasing, mostly horizontal. The left edge of the

sheet has an additional strip attached along its full length.

There are losses at the top left corner and along the top

edge and a filled loss at the bottom right corner.

Numbering

In pen and ink:40 Hor401E.

Discussion

Although four volumes of drawings from the collection of

the writer, historian, art theorist, curator, and collector

Filippo Baldinucci were sold by his descendants to the

Louvre in 1806 , dispersals from his collection occurred

well before this. Baldinucci’s attributions are often opti-

mistic, but whether or not he believed the present drawing

to be by Michelangelo is unknown. In any case, it seems

of reasonable quality and was probably made quite early,

before Daniele’s partial repainting of15 6 5.

It would be reasonable to assume that the present draw-

ing was part of the same very large copy of theLast

Judgementas Cat. 102 : The scale is homogeneous and

the known provenance is identical. There are, however,

considerable differences between them in handling and

conception of form. It is not, of course, to be excluded

that two different draughtsman might be responsible for

different areas of the same copy. In the present state of

knowledge it seems best to catalogue them separately. See

Cat. 102 for further discussion.

History

Filippo Baldinucci; Francis Douce bequest to the

Bodleian Library, 1834 , transferred to the Ashmolean in

1863.

References

Macandrew, 1980 ,A 26 (As for A 25 .).