Lot Essay
A copy with differences after a figure in Michelangelo's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. The composition of the present drawing was engraved by Paulus Pontius (1603-1658) around 1630 as Plate 6 in the Livre à dessiner (Hollstein 157), assembled from material associated with Rubens and others in his circle, but Jeremy Wood suggests that Pontius did not base his engraving on the present drawing but on another one, today untraced. Another version (possibly a copy) of the present drawing, more complete and untrimmed, is in the Art Institute, Chicago (inv. 1922.3107).