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Recto: a male head upturned to the right. Verso: two studies of the head of a putto 1625-29
Black chalk heightened with white on blue-grey paper | 34.1 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 900261
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Domenichino (Bologna 1581-Naples 1641)
Recto: a male head upturned to the right. Verso: two studies of the head of a putto 1625-29
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Domenichino (Bologna 1581-Naples 1641)
Recto: a male head upturned to the right. Verso: two studies of the head of a putto 1625-29
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Recto: a drawing of the head of a young man, turned half to the right and looking upwards. Verso: two studies of the head of an infant, inclined downwards.
The drawing on the recto of this sheet is a study for the head of the figure of St John the Evangelist in The Madonna and Child with St John the Evangelist and St Petronius, commissioned for the Bolognese Church of St John the Evangelist and St Petronius, in Rome; now in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome. The drawings on the verso of the sheet are not connected with this project.
In his biography of Domenichino, Giovan Pietro Bellori includes this altarpiece among the works executed before the painter's departure for Naples in 1631. It was commissioned during the Holy Year of 1625, and delivered in 1629. The Francesco Raspantino inventory lists a 'charitone della Madonna del quadro de Bolognesi', and 26 'disegni del quadro della chiesa de Bolognesi'.
There are 34 sheets of studies at Windsor connected with this painting.Provenance
Bequeathed to Francesco Raspantino; Carlo Maratti, after 1664; from whom purchased by Clement XI, 1703; by whom bequeathed to his nephew, Alessandro Albani, 1721; from whom purchased by George III, 1762; first recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1800-20
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Medium and techniques
Black chalk heightened with white on blue-grey paper
Measurements
34.1 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper)
Other number(s)
RL 261Alternative title(s)
St John the Evangelist
The Madonna and Child with SS John the Evangelist and Petronius