The head of an angel

A lithograph reproducing the detail of the head of the angel on the left of the lunette fresco The Almighty, now in the Louvre, Paris (inv.no.R.F.48), designed by Raphael and executed by his workshop c.1513-20 in the chapel of the Villa Magliana, the papal villa in the Roman campagna. Lettered with attribution of the composition to Raphael top right and information about the origin of the fresco top left. Numbered at top left: 293. Plate no.293 from a-yet-unidentified set. Annotated on verso.

Ruland (1876) states that this lithograph was made "by Ramboux, after a tracing". Johann Anton Ramboux, a painter and museum curator, made a number trips to Italy during his lifetime; the fresco was detached from its setting in 1830 (see Bibliographic References), after which he would have more plausibly been able to make a tracing.

The Magliana chapel frescoes were commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X. They were detached from the chapel in the nineteenth century and fragments of two of them are now in the Louvre, Paris, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne.