drawing
- Museum number
- 1895,0915.746
- Description
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An angel playing a lute, with her right foot raised
Red chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper, squared for transfer
- Production date
- 1537-1595
- Dimensions
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Height: 290 millimetres
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Width: 208 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See JCR Add.10 (manuscript addition).
Study for figure in the fresco above the altarpiece in the chapel of St. Cecilia and Catherine in the church of San Sigismondo, Cremona. The altarpiece by the artist for this chapel is dated 1566 and the fresco presumably dates from the same time.
Lit.: A.E. Popham and J. Wilde, 'The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle', London, 1949, p. 204; M. Di Giampaolo, 'Aspetti della Grafica Cremonese per S. Sigismondo: da Camillo Boccaccino a Bernardino Campi', "Antichità Viva", 1974, 6, p. 23, fig. 32
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1996, BM, Malcolm Drawings, apx.
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.746
