The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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APPENDIX 2. THE LAWRENCE COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS 443


  1. 1830 - 75 ?/ 1836 - 95 / 1838 - 56 /Weimar, Sachsen Weimar
    Collection (Von Ritgen photograph 1865 ,no. 50 as
    Michelangelo; Gotti, 1875 ,II, p. 210 :La Sibilla Libica,
    accompagnata da due Angeli. Disegno di sorprendente belleza,
    accuratamente condotto a matita nera e acquerello leggerissimo,
    tratto dall’affresco della Sistine. Potrebbe essere che sotto il finito
    della matita esistesse gi`aunleggiro schizzo originale del Buonar-
    roti. Collezione di S. A. R. il Granduca. Dalle Collezioni
    Buonarroti, Wicar, Lawrence e Re de’Paesi Bassi.Delacre, 1938 ,
    p. 315 )/Phillips, London, 7 July 1999 ,lot 121 ;black chalk,
    heightened with white, 398 × 261 mm, as Roman School,
    sixteenth century.
    114.Perhaps part of 1830 - 135 /Not exhibited in 1836 /August
    1838 purchase?/Not further identified; untraced.

  2. 1830 - 79 / 1836 - 20 (although not recorded by Wood-
    burn,this sheet also bears the stamp of Sir Peter Lely on the
    recto and Gibson’s inscription M. Angolo and his price code

  3. 3 on the verso)/ 1838 - 7 .Itlater appeared in a sale,Handze-
    ichnungen des XV bis XVIII Jahrhunderts, 9 – 10 May 1930 ,
    C.G.Boerner, Leipzig, lot 331 ,recto illustrated pl. XXXIV,
    as by Sebastiano, recto: Study for Christ in the Viterbo Pieta;`
    verso: half-length figure of the Virgin. Red chalk, 192 ×
    285 mm, with the provenance given as Lely, Richardson Sr.,
    Reynolds, Liphart, and Hasse but omitting Lawrence; Santa
    Barbara, California, Alfred Moir Collection, attributed to
    Francesco Salviati by A. Moir and N. Turner, a view shared
    bythe compiler.

  4. 1830 - 16 / 1836 - 38 / 1838 - 19 /Lawrence Gallery, 1853 ,pl. 19 /
    Louvre, Inv. 746 /J 38 (with incorrect reference to the 1836
    exhibition).
    119.Probably 1830 - 69 / 1836 - 86 / 1838 - 51 /Lawrence Gallery,
    1853 ,pl. 14 /186 0- 126 /Thibaudeau/Bayonne, Musee Bon- ́
    nat, Bean 67.
    1 20. 1830 -Not identified / 1836 - 35 / 1838 - 16 /186 0- 142 ?/
    bought by Enson/Vaughan?/BM W 102.
    This sequence presents two problems. It supposes that the
    drawing acquired by Brondgeest in 1850 passed to Wood-
    burnbefore the latter’s death in 1853 and that the sheet now
    in the BM, which does not bear the Lawrence stamp, has
    been trimmed at the bottom by some 50 mm. On the other
    hand, the price paid by Brondgeest implies that the drawing
    wasofhigh quality, which is certainly true of W 102 .Itwas
    first attributed to Francesco Salviati by M. Hirst, 1961 ,a
    judgement accepted by most critics, including the compiler.
    1 22. 1830 - 45 i/ 1836 - 62 / 1838 - 33 /Lawrence Gallery, 1853 ,pl.
    11 /186 0- 121 /BM W 52.
    123.Probably 1830 - 17 / 1836 - 100 / 1838 - 59 ,bought by Engel-
    bert/Frankfurt, Staedelsches Kunstinstitut, Inv. 393 /Corpus


  5. The high price reached by this drawing is surprising and
    might throw the identification in doubt. But Engelbert




seems to have acquired exclusively for Frankfurt in this sale,
and the compiler is aware of no alternative candidate.
1 24.Moselli Collection Verona before that of Pierre
Crozat/ 1830 - 117 / 1836 - 59 / 1838 - 30 /Lawrence Gallery, 1853 ,
pl. 24 /186 0- 138 bought by Clement/Emile Galichon, his
sale, May 1875 ,lot 15 /Malcolm 79 /BM W 55.


  1. 1830 - 8 / 1836 - 77 / 1838 - 44 /Weimar, Sachsen-Weimar Col-
    lection (Gotti, 1875 ,II, p. 210 :Il Sogno della Vita umana.
    Disegno maestrevolmente condotto a matita nera. La figura centrale
    dormente`emolta finita. Collezione di S. A. R. la Granduchessa.
    Dalle Collezione Lawrence e Re dei Paesi Bassi.)/Count
    Antoine Seilern/London, Courtauld Institute of Art,
    Prince’s Gate Collection.

  2. 1830 - 76 / 1836 - 57 / 1838 - 28 /Leembrugen sale186 6,lot
    920 ,asSebastiano/Malcolm 63 /BM W 15.

  3. 1830 - 70 / 1836 - 29 / 1838 - 14 /Lawrence Gallery, 1853 ,pl. 8 /
    186 0- 117 /BM W 32.
    1 28. 1830 - 77 ?/ 1836 - 19 ?/ 1838 - 6 .Unidentified, untraced.
    1 29. 1830 - 64 i,ii,iii/ 1836 - 88 / 1838 - 53 /Lawrence Gallery, 1853 ,
    pl. 7 /186 0- 109 /BM W 76 – 78.
    1 30. 1830 - 44 / 1836 - 87 / 1838 - 52 /Lawrence Gallery, 1853 ,pl. 12 /
    186 0- 111 ,bought by Farrer/BM W 17.

  4. 1830 - 36 / 1836 - 83 / 1838 - 48 /186 0- 112 /BM W 16.
    1 32. 1830 - 88 / 1836 - 60 /186 0- 101 /Miss K. Radford/BM W 71.

  5. 1830 - 89 / 1836 - 65 (the provenance is given in 1836 as
    Buonarroti and Wicar, but because the drawing bears the
    Bona Rotiinscription, it probably did not come from Casa
    Buonarroti)/ 1838 - 36 / 1850 - 133 ,asMarcello Venusti/186 0-
    102 /BM W 72.

  6. 1814 - 259 ?/ 1830 - 27 / 1836 - 90 / 1838 - 54 /Weimar, Sach-
    sen Weimar Collection/Private Collection, Switzerland/
    Phillips, London, Sale 11 December 1996 ,lot 239 ,black
    chalk, 192 × 147 mm, as follower of Daniele da Volterra.
    See 1830 - 27 for further details.

  7. 1830 - 4 / 1836 - 13 / 1838 - 3 /186 0- 124 /BM W 4.
    141.Perhaps: Pierre Crozat?; his number? 396 at lower
    left/Count Moritz Von Fries (L. 2903 )/ 1836 - 58 / 1838 -
    29 /Lawrence Gallery, 1853 ,pl. 10 /186 0- 120 /BM W 69.
    If the identification suggested here is correct, the drawing
    would have passed from Enthoven to Woodburn between
    1850 and 1853.
    1 42.Probably 1830 - 37 / 1836 - 79 / 1838 - 46 /186 0- 100 bought
    byTiffin/Locker[-Lampson]/BM W 11.
    1 43.Probably 1830 - 10 / 1836 - 12 / 1838 - 2 /Lawrence Gallery,
    1853 ,pl. 21 /186 0- 147 /Vaughan/BM W 10.
    144.Perhaps 1830 - 11 ?/ 1836 - 26 / 1838 - 11 /186 0- 123 /J. C.
    Robinson/Malcolm 64 /BM W 54.

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