Putti Playing with Hoops (Cartoon for a Fresco in the Parma Cathedral), ca. 1548, Black chalk; outlines pricked for transfer, Sheet: 22 × 24 13/16 in. (55.9 × 63 cm), Drawings, Michelangelo Anselmi (Italian, Siena or Lucca (?) 1492–1556 Parma), In this rare, monumental cartoon (full-scale drawing), a group of pleasingly plump children arranged in a friezelike composition plays with hoops. The outlines of the figures are pricked with small holes, indicating the transfer of the design by means of pouncing, a technique by which the perforated outlines are rubbed with charcoal dust
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