The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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to his right; the right leg also tried in a kneeling pose, in

pen.

This is probably a first idea for anignudo;itbears some

relation to that to the left aboveHieremias.

F. Indecipherable offset traces from a black chalk drawing.

Copy

Bonthe verso was copied in pen c.15 8 0 byAndrea

Commodi on Uffizi 18654 Frecto.

References

Ottley, 1808 – 23 ,p. 29 .Woodburn, 1836 b, included in

no. 2. Fisher, 1852 ,p. 1 , pl. 2 ,right (Recto); pl. 3 , left

(Verso). Fisher, 1865 ,p. 16 ,I,pl. 2 ,right (Recto); pl. 3 ,

left (Verso). Robinson,187 0,no. 25. 2 (Michel Angelo.

Recto: “has considerable resemblance to the well-known

figure, on the reverse of the medal of Michel Angelo

in his eighty-eighth year, executed by Leone Leoni of

Arezzo, upwards of fifty years after the probable date of

the present drawing.” Verso: [A] “apparently...for the

lunette figure on the right side, beneath...Cumaea.”).

Fisher,187 2,I,p. 13 , pl. 2 ,right (Recto); pl. 3 , left

(Verso) (As 1852 .). Fisher,187 9, XVII. 2 / 17 right (Recto);

XVII. 2 a/ 18 left (Verso). Steinmann, 1905 , II, pp. 450 ,

604 ,no. 59 A, right (Recto: reading man perhaps a first

idea ofNaason, later switched to profile view; the old man

in theSalmonlunette, standing.); no. 59 B,left (Sketches

for lunettes including sleeping Jacob from lostPhares-

Esron-Aramlunette.). Thode, 1908 ,I,pp. 266 , 267 , 271

(Michelangelo. Verso: [A] woman with child on her knee

forEzechiaslunette; [B] the woman with the mirror for

theNaasonlunette, in reverse; other sketches cannot be

precisely related to frescoes.). K. Frey, 1909 – 11 ,no. 153. 10

(Recto: “fur Michelagniolo viel zu swach gezeichnet.”); ̈

no.15 4. 13 (Verso: [A] related toEzechiaslunette; if [B]

is related to woman inNaasonlunette, it is in reverse.).

Thode, 1913 ,no. 413 (Michelangelo. Recto: old beggar;

verso: as 1908 .). Berenson, 1938 ,no. 1703 ,note (Recto

corresponds in design to the reverse of Leoni’s medal of

1561 .Is“this sketch...the copy of a drawing from his