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Lorenzo De Ferrari

Study of an Angel in Flight, c. 1738

Not on View

Medium

black chalk on blue laid paper, squared for transfer

Dimensions

sheet: 54.9 × 39.4 cm (21 5/8 × 15 1/2 in.)

framed: 76.2 × 60.96 cm (30 × 24 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Accession Number

2018.172.2

Artists / Makers

Lorenzo De Ferrari (artist) Italian, 1680 - 1744

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Inscription

Lower center in brown ink: No 49 Collezione Santo Varni

Provenance

Santo Varni [1807 - 1885], Genoa (Lugt 3531), no. 49. (Stanza del Borgo, Milan, by 1998); Silvana Tagliavini, Milan; purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bareggi, Silvana

Exhibition History

2020: A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020, no. 104 (shown only in Washington, Washington venue canceled).

Bibliography

1998: Bareggi, Silvana. Il Bel Segno. Disegni dal XVI al XIX secolo. Stanza del Borgo, Milan, 1998: 38-39, no. 18 (color).

2019: Bober, Jonathan. "Genoese Baroque Drawings." National Gallery of Art Bulletin, No. 60(Spring, 2019): 29.

2020: Bober, Jonathan. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750,Exh cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington: 304, no. 104.

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