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FRANCESCO DE ROSSI, CALLED IL SALVIATI (CIRCLE OF) The Seated Figure of a Saved Soul<>.
Red chalk on cream laid paper, 1540s. 170x172 mm; 6 3/4x6 7/8 inches. Inscribed "27" and "10 Bt" in ink, lower right recto, and inscribed with an attribution to Sebastiano del Piombo in black chalk, verso. Ex-collection Maison R.W.P. de Vries (Lugt supplement 2786 a, verso).
This drawing is copied from the figure in the lower left foreground of Michelangelo's Last Judgment<>. A drawing by the same hand after another group in the same fresco is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Parker II, 365).
Paul Joannides dates both drawings to the 1540s and asserts that the draftsman must be Florentine. He describes his style as quite close to--but distinct from--that of Salviati's more exact chalk manner, which would have stressed more the solidity of the form; and equally distinct from that of Daniele da Volterra, whose hatching he describes as more systematic and regular.
