Drawing
16th century? (made)
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Group of angels playing musical instruments while reclining on clouds. Another design of a similar composition on the reverse; Red and black chalk; Signed Coregio.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Red and black chalk |
| Brief description | Correggio (copy after?); Group of angels playing musical instruments. They feature in the right-hand upper part of Correggio's fresco of the Coronation of the Virgin. Another design of a similar composition on the reverse; Red and black chalk; Signed 'Coregio'; Italian; (?)16th century. |
| Physical description | Group of angels playing musical instruments while reclining on clouds. Another design of a similar composition on the reverse; Red and black chalk; Signed Coregio. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed Coregio. |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce |
| Object history | The group of angel musicians feature in the right-hand upper part of Correggio's fresco of the Coronation of the Virgin (formerly in the apse of S. Giovanni Evangelista, Parma). |
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| Bibliographic reference | DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | DYCE.270 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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