Study after a Painting by Fra Angelico

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Drawing details

Title: Study after a Painting by Fra Angelico
Date: 1858
Media: Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 23.9 x 19.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/1139 p.115
Inscriptions: Inscribed and dated "A da Fiesole /58 / Belle Arti" in pencil, in the artist's hand

Interpretation

This study is a detail copied from the painting 'The Last Judgement' by Fra Angelico, in the Museo di San Marco in Florence.

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Study of an angel embracing a monk, a detail copied from the painting 'The Last Judgement' (1432-35) by Fra Angelico (Italian painter, c.1400-1455). 

Provenance

Collection of Adelaide Sartoris (ne+ Kemble, opera singer, writer and society hostess, 1814-1879); sold through the Maas Gallery (art dealers) in 1969; purchased by Leighton House Museum in 1969