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