The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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towards, directness and brutality of effect would fit well

with the personality projected by this drawing, and

the date would also be appropriate. Passerotti is little

known as a draughtsman in chalk, and no attribution

to him of such can be more than conjectural. However,

the compiler ( Joannides, 2000 ,p. 40 ) has attributed

to Passerotti two further sheets of drawings in red

chalk (although, unlike the present drawing, over stylus

indications) in the Ashmolean Museum (Parker, 1956 , II,

p. 625 , 240 × 401 mm; and l. 627 , 415 × 283 mm, classed

as school of Raphael), both of which contain copies after

the antique, and the present drawing seems compatible

with those. A similar date is suggested by the fact that

Parker, 1956 , II, p. 625 bears an uncommon watermark

found elsewhere – to the compiler’s knowledge – only

on a map printed in Rome in155 7.

History

Jeremiah Harman; Samuel Woodburn.

References

Woodburn,184 2,no. 84 (“Study from the Last Judge-

ment.”). Woodburn,184 6,no. 9 (As 184 2.). Fisher,

1852 ,p. 6 , pl. 29 (As Woodburn,184 2.). Fisher, 1865 ,

I, p. 19 , pl. 29 (As 1852 .). Robinson, 187 0,no. 61

(Copy, “the touch and general style of drawing...seem

to reveal the hand of Daniele da Volterra.”). Fisher,

187 2,I,p. 17 , pl. 29 (As 1852 .). Gotti, 1875 ,II,

p. 227. Fisher,187 9, XXXIX/ 41 (Copy.). Steinmann,

1905 , II, p. 608 (Copy.). Thode, 1913 ,p. 210 (Copy.).

Parker, 1956 ,no.36 6 (Nothing to warrant attribution

to Daniele da Volterra “but...old and fairly accom-

plished.”).