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Praying Angel

Angioletto in preghiera - Praying Angel
Object belonging
One's own
Category
Wood sculpture
City
Rome
Location
Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
Specific location
Study room, cabinet, shelf 1, section E
Inventory
PV 09217/ 82
Material and technique
Sculpted wood, paint, gilding
Author
Neapolitan School
Dating
First half of 18th century
Dimensions
10.5 x 17 x 8.7 cm.
Origin
Tower-Wurts Collection (1933)
Image copyright
SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

As with many wooden sculptures now at Palazzo Venezia, this work also came from the collection of George Washington Wurts (1843-1928), an American diplomat, whose collection was donated by his wife Henriette Tower to the Italian state in 1933 (W 2/212). This work depicts a nude angel with small wings, missing some toes from its feet; it would certainly have been part of an 18th century, probably Neapolitan, nativity scene, and forms a pair with its mirror image, identified with inv. no. PV 9217/83.

 Grazia Maria Fachechi 

Bibliography

Unpublished

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