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Sassoferrato (1609-85)
A study for a portrait of Cardinal Rapaccioli c. 1640-45
Black and white chalk on grey-green paper | 38.1 x 22.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906102
Sassoferrato (1609-85)
A study for a portrait of Cardinal Rapaccioli c. 1640-45
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A study for the figure of Cardinal Rapaccioli for the painting in the John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota. He is shown full-length, seated in three-quarter view; with separate detail studies of the hands, below. The main study has been squared for enlargement.
In the background of the painting hangs a painting of The Madonna and Child, now in the Pinacoteca in Brera, executed by Sassoferrato in close imitation of Raphael's Madonna of the Tower.Provenance
Bought in Rome by Richard Dalton, c.1768-9, on behalf of George III (20 scudi for a group of 67 drawings by Sassoferrato, RCIN 906046-906112; see list of disbursements in Royal Archives, 15602-3)
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Medium and techniques
Black and white chalk on grey-green paper
Measurements
38.1 x 22.7 cm (sheet of paper)
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