Assumption of the Virgin after Domenico Passignano (recto); Head of a Man (verso), 18th century
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Bequest of Professor Alfred Moirexpand_more 2012.58.148
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We are grateful to the scholar Miles Chappell for identifying the Roman altarpiece Robert Ango copied in this study of the "Assumption of the Virgin." It is after Domenico Passignano's altarpiece (1604-16) in the Barberini Chapel in the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle, Rome.The French artist Robert Ango lived in Rome in the early 1760s and produced countless red chalk drawings copying Italian paintings from the preceding century.
Details
- Title
- Assumption of the Virgin after Domenico Passignano (recto); Head of a Man (verso)
- Artist Life
- active 1759-1770
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2012.58.148
- Provenance
- Sale, Sotheby's, London, October 10, 1974, no. 243, for £30, to Moir; Alfred Moir, Santa Barbara (1974-d. 2010; bequeathed to MIA)
- Curator Approved
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