Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
A flying angel
c.1750-1850Etching | RCIN 852757
An anonymous facsimile of a sheet now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.31). Parker (1956) mentioned that the drawing was etched in facsimile by the Marquis de Lagoy.
The drawing was formerly attributed to Raphael, and connected with the angel on the right of the 'The Sacrifice of Abraham', one of the four ceiling paintings of the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican.
The drawing was formerly attributed to Raphael, and connected with the angel on the right of the 'The Sacrifice of Abraham', one of the four ceiling paintings of the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican.
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
