Lot 140: f - JEAN-ROBERT ANGO DIED CIRCA 1773

ST. LUIGI GONZAGA IN GLORY, AFTER PIERRE LEGROS

measurements note
525 by 314mm; the corners cut

red chalk, within red chalk framing lines

PROVENANCE

Kurt Meissner (bears his mark on mount, not in Lugt);
sale, London, Christie's, 2 July 1991, lot 338

EXHIBITED

Bremen, Kunsthalle and Zürich, Kunsthaus, Handzeichnungen Alter Meister aus Schweizer Privatbesitz, 1967, p. 40, cat. no. 42, reproduced

NOTE

This study is drawn after the large marble relief made by Pierre Legros for the Lancellotti Chapel, in the transept of S. Ignazio, Rome (fig. 1). The design and construction of the relief, between 1697 and 1699, was an early work by Legros, and was overseen by Andrea Pozzo, who also produced a preliminary design for the composition (see E. P. Bowron and J. J. Rishel (eds.), Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000, pp. 258-9, cat. no. 132).

Ango was a friend of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, but other than this, little is known of him. His hand was identified by Alexandre Ananoff, and is known from numerous copies after Fragonard, Hubert Robert, Michelangelo and Rembrandt.