Drapery Study for the Angel of the Annunciation

Battista Francoc. 1553

Figure of an angel wearing a chiton tied under her breast and gathered at the hips, leaning left with right leg extended before left leg.

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Title: Drapery Study for the Angel of the Annunciation
Creator: Battista Franco
Creator Lifespan: 1500/1561
Date Created: c. 1553
Type: Drawing
Rights: Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle
Medium: Red chalk on dark cream laid paper
Exhibitions: Princeton, NJ-The Art Museum, Princeton University, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle (12 October -8 December 1991), no. 6 [traveled to Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, 25 February-5 April 1992; The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 28 April - 7 June 1992; University of Michigan Museum of Art, September 25-October 1992; Duke Unversity Museum of Art, 6 November -20 December 1992].
Dimensions: 27.3 x 12.3 cm (10 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
Bibliography: Gere, John and Philip Pauncey. Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum: Artists Working in Rome c. 1550-c. 1640 (London, 1963).den Broeder, Frederick A. Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle, exh. cat. (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1991), p. 30, no. 6, p. 31 (illus.).

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