The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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CATALOGUES 111–112 MISCELLANEOUS 38 9

vonFries Collection to be exhibited as by Michelangelo
in 1836 .).

CATALOGUE 112

girolamomuziano( 1532 – 15 9 2)
Recto: TheDeposition
Ve rso: TheDepositionVa ried
184 6. 134 .R. 83 ;P.II 415
Dimensions: 262 × 161 mm

Medium
Red chalk.

Inscription
Ve r so: In pen and ink at lower centre:Michalangolo.

Discussion
The present drawing was probably given to Michelangelo
because of its broad compositional resemblance to the
master’s version of the subject in Haarlem (Teyler
Museum A 25 recto/VT 60 /Corpus 89 ;red chalk, 273 ×
191 mm) and a close variant of that design, known from
a plaster cast in Casa Buonarroti and several plaques in
bronze. Girolamo Muziano’s authorship of the present
drawing was first recognised by Pouncey. Even though
it has not securely been connected with a painting by
Muziano, it – and its companions – may represent early
ideas for a composition recorded in an engraving by
Cornelius Cort (The Illustrated Bartsch 52 , 86 -II).
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