Half-length study of a youth with a raised left arm
Drawing
ca. 1609 (drawn)
ca. 1609 (drawn)
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| Place of origin |
This is one of several preparatory drawings connected with frescoes which Roncalli executed in the dome of the Basilica at Loreto (subsequently destroyed). The study was used for the figure of an angel perching on a balustrade with his left arm raised. In the finished work another angel mirrored this pose on the other side of the fresco, so that the two angels framed the composition.
Object details
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| Title | Half-length study of a youth with a raised left arm |
| Materials and techniques | Red chalk |
| Brief description | Cristoforo Roncalli, red chalk half-length study of a male torso with a raised left arm |
| Physical description | Red chalk drawing of a male torso with raised left arm; the head is lightly sketched. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides |
| Object history | Bequeathed by C.A. Ionides, 1900 |
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| Summary | This is one of several preparatory drawings connected with frescoes which Roncalli executed in the dome of the Basilica at Loreto (subsequently destroyed). The study was used for the figure of an angel perching on a balustrade with his left arm raised. In the finished work another angel mirrored this pose on the other side of the fresco, so that the two angels framed the composition. |
| Bibliographic reference | Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings, Volume Two: 17th-18th Century , London, 1979, p.80 , cat. n. 796, illus.
The following is the full text of the entry:
RONCALLI, CRISTOFORO (1552-1626)
796
Half length study of a nude youth, leaning back, with his left arm raised
Red chalk
8 x 10 (203 x 254) CAI. 374
PROVENANCE Ionides Bequest 1901 (Lugt 488)
LITERATURE Ionides Catalogue, p. 15 (as anonymous, Venetian school)
The attribution to Roncalli was made by Philip Pouncey, who compares the drawings with some similar red chalk studies of a boy with one arm raised in the Casas Santa at Loreto, studies that are doubtless connected with Roncalli’s lost frescoes in the dome there, painted c. 1608-10. See especially inv. nos. 28621 and 28666 at Loreto. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CAI.374 |
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| Record created | March 27, 2008 |
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