drawing
- Museum number
- 1939,0627.6
- Description
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St Amelia, Queen of Hungary; wearing a blue cloak and kneeling with three other figures before an altar, a decorative plant holder at left. 1821
Red and black chalk and graphite, with watercolour, heightened with gold
- Production date
- 1821
- Dimensions
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Height: 428 millimetres
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Width: 276 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This composition was used in a stained-glass window commissioned by the Queen Marie-Amélie for the private chapel of the Orléans family in the Château d'Eu in Normandy. The composition was engraved in a print by Paul Mercuri after a lost Delaroche painting (BM Impressions: 1889,0318.2; 1864,0714.23.+; and 1868,0822.1033). Philip Mould and Bendor Grosvenor have recently rediscovered this lost painting formerly in the collection of Marie-Amélie and which she brought to England when she was exiled. The painting was later sold at Christie's, where it was acquired by Neil Wilson and it is currently in the possession of his widow in Scotland. The composition was probably derived from a medieval book of hours (see Stephen Bann, 'Parallel Lines', Yale 2001, p.133).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1996, BM, French Drawings from the BM, (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- 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
- 1939,0627.6