drawing
- Museum number
- 1897,0410.5
- Description
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An angel appearing to two saints in a temple; a group of figures in discussion behind
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidised), on light brown prepared paper
- Production date
- 1561-1626
- Dimensions
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Height: 326 millimetres
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Width: 225 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Acquired as by Cardisco (il Calabrese), and transferred to Salmeggia by Pouncey in 1940. It is a study for a painting, destroyed in the Second World War , in the church of San Paolo, Milan (Ruggeri, fig. 10). In the painting the position of the angel and two saints is reversed, and the figures in the background and the architectural setting differ. The painting is dated by Ruggeri to the early 1600s.
Lit.: M. Bénard, 'Cabinet de M. Paignon Dijonval', Paris, 1810, no. 860, p. 45 (as Marco Cardisco); U. Ruggeri, 'Salmeggia, Pittore 1', "Critica d'Arte", 1966, XII, pp. 46-7, fig. 9
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1897,0410.5
