ALPHONSE-ALEXANDRE LEROY (1820-1902)

Studies of figures playing musical instruments

published 1858

Crayon-manner, on tinted paper | 25.2 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851358

A print after a drawing formerly in the Wicar Museum, Lille and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 444). Published in Choix de dessins de Raphael qui font partie de la collection Wicar à Lille, Paris 1858, plate XI. A photograph of the drawing can be found at RCIN 851357.

The drawing is a preparatory study by Raphael (c.1502-03) for the figures of the angels playing musical instruments in the Coronation of the Virgin, the main panel of the so-called Oddi Altarpiece (or Pala Oddi), executed by the master in c.1502-03 and now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City (inv. no.334).

Creator(s)

Alphonse-Alexandre Leroy (1820-1902) (artist)

After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
25.2 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper)

24.6 x 28.0 cm (platemark)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
  Religions and faiths
  Christianity
  Angels, demons, devils, saints
  Angels
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Bibliographic reference(s)

Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.143, no.43r

Knab/Mitsch/Oberhuber 1983 : Raffaello. I disegni 1983 : I disegni. (Catalogo dei Disegni a cura di Oberhuber, Ferino Pagden, Huber), Florence 1983 p.585, no.39

Raphael dans les collections françaises 1983 : Hommage a Raphael. Raphael dans les collections françaises: (Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 15 novembre 1983-13 fevrier 1984), Paris pp.188-9, no.24

Brejon de Lavergnée 1997 : Brejon de Lavergnée, B, 1997. Catalogue des dessins Italiens. Collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris p.180, no.517r

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Ruland p.103 A.I.10

Studies of figures playing musical instruments

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