Baldinucci writes of Cigoli and Andrea Commodi in the Sacristy of San Lorenzo drawing the sculptures of Michelangelo, 'cercando d'immitarle con fare le figure intere o parte di esse'. This period circa 1600 coincided with Cigoli's meeting with the Flemish anatomist Teodoro Maierng, whose celebrated Scorticato Cigoli copied on the verso of the present drawing. The sculpture which later belonged to Furini is now in the Bargello. Anatomical drawings of the same period are in the Louvre, F. Viatte, Dessins Toscans XVIe-XVIIe Siècles, Paris, 1988, nos. 142-3, both illustrated