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Recto: A study for a prophet. Verso: A study for a seated half-draped male figure c.1638-44
Black and white chalk on grey-green paper | 37.5 x 25.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 905686

Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647)
Recto: A study for a prophet. Verso: A study for a seated half-draped male figure c.1638-44

Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647)
Recto: A study for a prophet. Verso: A study for a seated half-draped male figure c.1638-44


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Recto: a study for a prophet, partially clad in billowing drapery, with his right arm raised; connected with a figure in one of the lunettes in the right-hand side of the nave of SS Apostoli, Naples. Verso: a study for the drapery of a standing figure.
Provenance
Probably acquired by George III in 1762 as part of the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Albani; first recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1810 (Inv. A, p. 84: 'Study's for various paintings, not above three or four small Compositions in the whole Volume')
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Black and white chalk on grey-green paper
Measurements
37.5 x 25.2 cm (sheet of paper)
Object type(s)