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Recto: A study for an attendant. Verso: A study of a female head c.1629-32
Black and white chalk on green-grey paper | 29.7 x 19.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 905716

Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647)
Recto: A study for an attendant. Verso: A study of a female head c.1629-32

Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647)
Recto: A study for an attendant. Verso: A study of a female head c.1629-32


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Recto: a study of a boy, half length, turned to the right with his arms raised. This is a preparatory drawing for the figure of an attendant in the fresco of Christ Shown to the People on the ceiling of the right wing, Cappella della Pietà, St Peters. Verso: the head and shoulders of a young woman, looking upwards; this is a study for the Adoration of the Cross in the main dome of the same chapel.
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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Medium and techniques
Black and white chalk on green-grey paper
Measurements
29.7 x 19.7 cm (sheet of paper)