- Museum number
- 1950,0623.1
- Description
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The Fall of the Rebel Angels; groups of writhing figures and angels amongst clouds
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash
Verso: Figure studies and calculations
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1616-1620
- Dimensions
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Height: 189 millimetres
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Width: 190 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Study for the unexecuted fresco of the the 'Fall of the Rebel Angels' intended for the chapel in the Palazzo Quirinale, Rome. For more information see 1950,0623.2. The present drawing is drawn on the outer sheet of a letter addressed to the artist in Florence.
Lit: J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 73; G. Papi, 'Andrea Commodi', Florence, 1994, no. D56, p. 167, fig. 95-6 (with further literature); I. Seligman, 'Lines of Thought', London, 2016, no. 55, p. 97.
Gere & Pouncey 1983
See 1950,0623.2 for curatorial comment and further literature.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2016 3 Sep - 6 Nov, Poole Museum, 'Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now', no. 55
2017 1 Jan - 25 Feb, The Brynmor Jones Library Art Gallery, University of Hull, 'Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now', no. 55
2017 12 Mar - 5 May, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 'Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now', no. 55
2017 May - Sep, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, 'Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now', no. 55
2017-2018 Oct - Jan, RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 'Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now', no. 55
- Acquisition date
- 1950
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1950,0623.1
