In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
The oddness of a sculptural fragment draped with clothing points to the workshop context of this drawing. When young artists became apprentices to master artists, they sometimes learned to draw by sketching from sculptures, even draping them with fabric in order to practice folds and texture. The technique of this pen-and-ink drawing—with closely spaced, crossed lines within tightly closed outlines—ties it to the circle of Domenico Ghirlandaio, a Florentine painter to which Michelangelo was apprenticed in 1487. Apprentices in Ghirlandaio’s large studio were taught his “system” for creating tone and depth.
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Eustache Le Sueur — Study for Saint Gervasius
Giovanni Bandini (called Giovanni dell'Opera) — Standing Apo
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) — Lucretia
Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) — A saint, possibly Matthe
Angelica Kauffmann — Study of a Seated Woman
Monogrammist VCP|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazz
Study of Monks
Veronese School — Seated Female Figure Holding a Book and a 
Domenico Beccafumi — Study of Drapery (Probably After the An
Veronese School — Seated Female Figure with Upraised Arms, F
Girolamo Macchietti — Head of a Mourning Woman in Profile to
Filippino Lippi (Italian, c. 1457–1504) — St. Jerome in His 
