The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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APPENDIX 2. THE LAWRENCE COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS 431

1152.Buonaroti (M. A.)– St. Mark and St. Luke –a study
in black chalk;a sheet of heads –pen,&c. 4
Bought Cockburn £ 0. 13. 0

1153.Buonaroti (M. A.)–Part of the Last Judgment; and
various, in the School of M. Angelo. 4

1154.Buonaroti (M. A.)–Afigure of a faun with two
children, and two figures on the reverse –broad pen; and an
anatomical study –red chalk. 2
Bought Boone £ 2. 4. 0

COMMENTARY

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The Lawrence Inventory


  1. Drawings Framed and Glazed, Cartoons, etc.
    1.184 2- 51 /184 6- 5 /R. 59 /P.II 761 byTaddeo Zuccaro. Not
    included in the present catalogue.

  2. 1836 - 71 /184 2- 48 /184 6- 2 /R. 76 ; Lloyd, 1977 ,A 66 c/Cat.



  3. Drawings Framed and Cartooned
    3.In Giovanni Bottari’s edition of Vasari, 1759 – 60 , III,
    p. 352 ,itisnoted: “Il cartone di questo quadro [i.e., the
    painting by Condivi in Casa Buonarroti]e stato gran tempo nel Palazzo Farnese, e ultimamente fu donato dal Re di Napoli al su Cardinale Silvio Valente, ede certamente orig-
    inale.” repeated verbatim in the edition of Vasari edited by
    T.Gentili, 1767 – 75 , VI, p. 381 ,n. 17 .Inthe sale of Car-
    dinal Valenti, Rome, April? 1809 , acquired by Guillaume-
    Lethiere, who wrote about it to Vivant Denon on` 3 May

  4. Denon made a vague offer to purchase it, but nothing
    seems to have come of this, and it was presumably sold by
    Guillaume-Lethi`ere to Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino.
    His sale London, 6 February, 1815 , lot 37 (unsold); London,
    14 – 16 May 1816 , lot 175 (unsold); Paris, 25 December–
    10 January 1824 , lot 1 (sold, 7200 francs, presumably to
    Woodburn); 1836 - 30 /part of August 1838 purchase/ 1850 -
    212 /186 0- 160 /Robinson/Malcolm 81 /BMW 75.

  5. M. A. Buonaroti
    Case 3, Drawer 3

  6. 1836 - 13 / 1838 - 3 / 1850 - 135 /186 0- 124 /BM W 4.
    5 i,ii,iii,iv,v.
    The reference to Ottley as it stands is hard to accept
    because it is highly unlikely that a copy drawing by Ott-
    ley would have been included in this group of Michelangelo
    drawings. It seems more likely that a word has been lost and
    that the drawing referred to was one owned, reproduced, or


described by Ottley. It is tempting to connect the reference
to the ViterboPiet`awith 1804 - 278 and 1814 - 826 ,but this
seems to have been an impressive – and probably large –
drawing, and it is unlikely that it would have been grouped
as one of five in the inventory.


  1. 1836 - 80 /184 2- 4 /R. 9 /P.II 316 /Cat. 29.

  2. 1836 - 3 / 1838 - 1 / 1850 - 155 ?/186 0- 145 /Malcolm 61 /BM W 1.
    See 1850 - 155 for further details.

  3. 1836 - 77 / 1838 - 44 / 1850 - 125 bought Woodburn/Weimar,
    Sachsen-Weimar Collection/Count Antoine Seilern/
    London, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Prince’s Gate
    Collection. See 1850 - 125 for further details.
    9.Probably 1836 - 45 /184 2- 33 /R. 51 /P.II 409 /Cat. 111.

  4. 1836 - 12 / 1838 - 2 / 1850 - 143 ?/Lawrence Gallery, 1853 , pl.
    21 /186 0- 147 /Vaughan/BM W 10.

  5. 1836 - 26 ?/ 1838 - 11 / 1850 – Not securely identifiable, per-
    haps 144 /186 0- 123 /J. C. Robinson/Malcolm 64 /BM
    W 54.
    12.184 2- 36 /R. 38 /P.II37 6/Cat. 72.

  6. 1836 - 21 (where described as female)/184 2- 27 /R. 10 /
    P.II 315 /Cat. 31 ).
    14.Probably 1836 - 56 / 1838 - 27 / 1850 - 170 /Weimar, Sachsen
    Weimar Collection (Gotti, 1875 , II, p. 210 ,GesuC` risto
    nell’atto di risorgere dalla tomba, con la mano sinistra alzata e la
    destra appena indicata. Bello studio, traciato leggiermente a matita
    nera, per una Resurrezione. Collezione di S. A. R. la Gran-
    duchessa. Dalle Collezioni D’Argenville, Lawrence e Re dei Paesi
    Bassi.)/Rotterdam, Boymans van Beuningen Museum, I. 20 ,
    as after Michelangelo, attributed by Wilde, 1953 a,p. 89 ,to
    Giulio Clovio; another candidate for the draughtsman would
    be Alessandro Allori.

  7. 1836 - 93 /184 2- 40 /R. 50 /P.II 480 as Polidoro da Car-
    avaggio. Not included in the present catalogue.

  8. 1836 - 38 / 1838 - 19 / 1850 - 118 /Lawrence Gallery, 1853 , pl.
    19 /Louvre Inv. 746 /J 38 (with incorrect reference to the 1836
    exhibition).

  9. 1836 - 100 / 1838 - 59 / 1850 - 123 ?, bought Engelbert/Frank-
    furt, Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Inv. ̈ 393 /Corpus 332.

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