The creation of the world, after Michelangelo Buonarroti

Ango made several copies after Michelangelo’s Sixtine Chapel, some of which are sketchier like the present sheet, others which are more finished. The present drawing was probably part of a series of four albums from the collection of the Bailli de Breteuil (see S. Boyer, ‘Quelques propositions autour de Jean-Robert Ango’, Les cahiers d’histoire de l’art, no. 6, 2008, p. 940).
We are grateful to Sarah Boyer for confirming the attribution on the basis of a digital photograph and for her assistance with the cataloguing of the drawing.