Title:
Study after a Fresco by Taddeo Gaddi Date:
c.1854-59 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.117 Inscriptions:
Inscribed upper left "Taddeogaddi" in pencil, in the artist's hand.
Interpretation
This is a study of a figure from the fresco 'Life of the Virgin' (1328-30) by Tadeo Gaddi (Italian artist, c.1300-1366), in the Cappella Baroncelli, a side chapel of the church of Santa Croce, in Florence.
Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Study of a standing female figure, facing to the right, a detail from the fresco 'Life of the Virgin' (1328-30) by Taddeo Gaddi (Italian artist, c.1300-1366).
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
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