Datos Generales
- Cronología
- Ca. 1772
- Ubicación
- Musée du Louvre, París, France
- Dimensiones
- 466 x 348 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- Musée du Louvre
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 04 Oct 2021 / 15 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- RF 36728 recto
Inscripciones
Franco Goya ( bottom left- hand corner)
Historia
Javier Goya, Madrid, 1828; Mariano Goya, Madrid, 1854; Valentín Carderera, Madrid, 1854-1860; Paul Laford, 1918; Musée du Louvre, Paris 1978.
Análisis artístico
The drawing has similar technical characteristics to the two previous works [see Angel's Head (1) and Angel's Head (2)].
This study seems to correspond to the angel seated in the centre of the scene in The Adoration of the Name of God, with his head raised to the right and his torso naked and frontal. The head in this case has a more virile appearance, perhaps due to the naked torso and the illumination it would eventually receive in the fresco. The use of the chiaroscuro accentuates the figure's light.
Conservación
Restored in 1995
Exposiciones
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París1984
Bibliografía
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Goya: etude biographique et critique suivié des catalogues completsBibliography']['numberParísLibrarie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne1902p. 153
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaBibliography']['numberParísOffice du livre1970pp. 74, cat. 32
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Goya. El capricho y la invención. Cuadros de gabinete, bocetos y miniaturasBibliography']['numberMadridMuseo del Prado1993p. 106-108
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Bibliography']['number
SantanderFundación Botín y Museo Nacional del Prado2018pp. 324-325, cat.31
