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Attributed to Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647)
The Transfiguration c.1605-20
Pen and brown wash, heightened with bodycolour on brown paper | 37.7 x 25.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 905667
Attributed to Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647)
The Transfiguration c.1605-20
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A drawing of the Transfiguration, with Christ aloft flanked by Moses and Elijah, and three Apostles prone on the ground. Inscribed: Lanfranco. The upper figures agree closely, in reverse, with the engraving by Claudio Dagli (or d'Aglio) after Lanfranco, dated 1641, for the title-page to an edition of St Thomas Aquinas' Evangeliorum Quadragesimalium Decas Prima, published in Rome.
Provenance
Probably acquired by George III in 1762 as part of the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Albani
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Medium and techniques
Pen and brown wash, heightened with bodycolour on brown paper
Measurements
37.7 x 25.8 cm (sheet of paper)
