The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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CATALOGUE 31 WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY AUTOGRAPH SHEETS 175

3. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum; black chalk, 148 × 163

mm. An adapted copy, no doubt also by Battista Franco.

See Cat. 62.

History

Casa Buonarroti; Jean-Baptiste Wicar; Samuel Wood-

burn; Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445 ); Samuel Woodburn.

References

Lawrence Inventory, 1830 ,M.A.Buonaroti Case 3 ,

Drawer 3 ,no. 10 [ 1830 - 13 ] (“Profile in red chalk of a

youth in a helmet, highly finished.”). Woodburn, 1836 b,

no. 21 (“A Female Portrait – of very expressive coun-

tenance.”). The Literary Gazette,July 1836 (“[A]mong

the many productions in this gallery which rivetted our

attention.”). The Athenaeum, 16 July 1836 (“[A]nother

instance of the beautiful in this artist, not altogether so rare

with him as is commonly supposed. The profound senti-

ment which inspires it is much rarer with other artists.”).

The Court Journal, 23 July 1836 (“Did not the ‘Female’

[ 21 ] serve as a model for theNightorSleep[which is it?]

on the Medicean Tomb? The fine, yet haggard features,

and the gloomy expression, so terrible in the statue, have

a kindred resemblance to this woman’s face.”). Wood-

burn, 184 2,no. 27 (As 1836 .). Woodburn,184 6,no.

24 (As184 2.). Woodburn, 1853 ,no. 19 (Reproduced.).

Fisher,186 2,p. 4 ,pl. 13 (Vittoria Colonna.). Fisher, 1865 ,

p. 23 , II, pl. 13 (As186 2.). Robinson,187 0,no. 10 (A

woman; “similar in character to the celebrated idealised