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Domenichino (Bologna 1581-Naples 1641)
An angel playing a flute 1625-29
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on buff paper | 36.8 x 22.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 900753
Domenichino (Bologna 1581-Naples 1641)
900753.jpg 1625-29
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A drawing of a figure, full length, seated and with hands positioned as if playing a flute; with angel's wings sketched in. This is an early study for the angel playing a flute to the left of the Virgin 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. RCIN 900562 is a worked-up study for the same figure.
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 chalk on buff paper
Measurements
36.8 x 22.6 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 753Alternative title(s)
The Madonna and Child with SS John the Evangelist and Petronius
