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Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
The Archangel Raphael c.1614-16
Black and white chalks on blue-grey paper | 33.5 x 22.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 903357
Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
The Archangel Raphael c.1614-16
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A drawing of a half-draped seated figure, looking to the left. The drawing is a study from the life for the Archangel Raphael in the fresco of Christ with the Archangels, painted by Reni's pupils in the dome of the Cappella del SS. Sacramento of the Duomo of Ravenna. The work was carried out mainly during 1614-16, though was not completed until 1621.
See V. Birke, Guido Reni: Zeichnungen, exh. cat., Albertina, Vienna, 1981, no. 75; S. Pepper, Guido Reni, 1984, under no. 45; Guido Reni und Europa, exh. cat., Frankfurt 1988, no. B34.Provenance
Listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800-20: p. 80, ‘Guido &c. Tom. 4’, among '18 Studies for Draperies’.
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Black and white chalks on blue-grey paper
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33.5 x 22.3 cm (sheet of paper)
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