The design for the pitcher is both witty in its invention and impressive in its execution. It is perhaps the study on the verso (sadly cut down from a larger composition), which provides the stronger [+]
Since this drawing was believed in the past to be a work of Michelangelo (1475-1564), it was clearly much revered by at least two of its previous owners, Céan Bermudez adn Brun (?), in spite of [+]