Lot Essay
Roger Ward compares the rendering of the architecture of the present drawing to the architecture of Bandinelli's Study for the Base of the Doria Monument in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (R. Ward, Baccio Bandinelli 1593-1560, exhib. cat., Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1988, fig. 19), or the Project for the Tomb of the Medici Popes, R. Ward, op. cit., no. 31, illustrated. The figures in the present drawing, and their poses, recall the figures on the recinto in Florence's cathedral and the philosophers in the Three Philosophers holding Tablets at an Altar, from the Dukes of Devonshire's collection, sold in these Rooms, 3 July 1984, lot 1, illustrated.