The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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36 4 COPIES AFTER PAINTINGS CATALOGUES 97–98

History

Chambers Hall (L. 551 ).

References

Parker, 1956 ,no.36 4(Early copy; traditionally associated

with Pontormo’s destroyedResurrectionin San Lorenzo.).

CATALOGUE 98

A Demon Carrying Off a Damned Soul

184 6. 109 ;R. 62 ;P.II 365

Dimensions: 145 × 101 mm

Medium

Red chalk.

Condition

There is extensive uneven discolouration with some fox-

ing and ingrained dirt.

Discussion

An early drawing after this much copied group. The right

shoulder and arm of one of the damned is drawn below.

Although reasonably accomplished, the drawing is a little

bland. Another copy after a figure from theLast Judge-

ment, the seated nude with his back half-turned among

the group of the saved at the lower left corner, seen by

the compiler on the art market in London in July 2001

(red chalk, 169 × 170 mm, indecipherable inscription in

pen and ink at lower right and, above this, the number

27 ) seems to him to be by the same hand, one not too far

from that of Federico Zuccaro.

History

Jeremiah Harman; Samuel Woodburn.

References

Woodburn,184 2,no. 25 (“Study from theLast Judge-

ment.”). Woodburn,184 6,no. 45 (As184 2.). Fisher, 1852 ,

p. 4 , pl. 16 (As Woodburn,184 2.). Fisher, 1865 ,I,p. 17 ,

pl. 16 (As 1852 .). Robinson,187 0,no. 62 (Copy, “per-

haps of contemporary date.”). Fisher,187 2,I,p. 15 , pl. 16

(As 1852 .). Gotti, 1875 , II, p. 227. Fisher,187 9, XL/ 42

(Copy.). Steinmann, 1905 , II, p. 608 (Copy.). Thode,

1913 ,p. 210 (Copy.). Parker, 1956 ,no. 365 (An early copy

before the figure was draped.). Nesselrath, 1990 ,no. 142

(Done prior to the draping of the figures in15 6 5;relation

to figure below differs from that in fresco.).