The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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CATALOGUE 46 WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY AUTOGRAPH SHEETS 225

Inscriptions

Verso: In an eighteenth-century? hand:

[sch]izzo raro persinon esserci il cartone e si guarda...gruppo

nella gue(rra di?)

Pisa in concorenza di Lionardo da vinci che Rafaello e altri

gran maestri...

Description

46a Recto

First line

A.The group in right profile (the pose of Goliath remi-

niscent of that of theLeda).

B.The group in left profile.

Second line

C.The group from three-quarters right.

Third line

D. The group from three-quarters right on a larger scale –

Goliath’s right leg entangles with that of David (lightly

sketched).

Fourth line

E.The group from three-quarters right.

F. The group from three-quarters right on a still larger

scale.

G.The head, right arm, and left shoulder of Goliath from

D,tried in a slightly different pose.

46b Recto

A.Christ advancing, overturning a table, with a figure

movingawayinto depth to His left.

B.Christ advancing, a figure cowering before him.

C.Acurved line rising diagonally across the fragment?.

46a Verso

Aleft leg, seen in profile (probably for the leg of Christ

in the four-figurePiet`anow in Florence).

46b Verso

Perhaps a man seated at a table.

Discussion

The studies on the main part of this sheet ( 46 a) are en-

suite with a group of four drawings in the Morgan Library

(Inv. 132 a,b,c,d/Corpus37 0– 373 ;black chalk, respectively

70 × 111 mm, 51 × 82 mm, 50 × 68 mm, 72 × 87 mm).

These are fragments cut from a larger sheet that once

bore an architectural study on its verso. The compiler’s