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The present drawing was first related to a study in the Victoria and Albert Museum of an angel standing on an altar by an artist of Bernini's school, P. Ward-Jackson, Italian Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 17th-18th Century, London, 1980, II, no. 633, illustrated.
The Victoriaand Albert museum drawing is sometimes related to designs for the Cornaro family, by comparison with a study for a Doge's tomb formerly in Anthony Blunt's collection, R. Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, London, 1981, no. 48, fig. 63. Doge Giovanni Cornaro's tomb was commissioned by one of his sons, Cardinal Federico, for the family chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria in Venice. The tomb, much simpler than the design formerly in Blunt's collection, now stands in San Nicolò dei Tolentini, Venice.
Duca Roberto Ferretti proposes that the drawing may have been associated with a monument of Admiral Antonio Priuli, Giovanni Cornaro's predecessor as Doge. Priuli's daughter married Cornaro's other son.
Of the Bernini drawings from the Viggiano collection, one is in the Katalan collection; another in the Polakovitz collection, now on loan to the Fogg Museum of Art; and a third, relating to frescoes designed by Bernini but executed by Gaulli in the Gesù, Rome, was sold at Christie's, 10 December 1991, lot 139, illustrated.
The Victoriaand Albert museum drawing is sometimes related to designs for the Cornaro family, by comparison with a study for a Doge's tomb formerly in Anthony Blunt's collection, R. Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, London, 1981, no. 48, fig. 63. Doge Giovanni Cornaro's tomb was commissioned by one of his sons, Cardinal Federico, for the family chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria in Venice. The tomb, much simpler than the design formerly in Blunt's collection, now stands in San Nicolò dei Tolentini, Venice.
Duca Roberto Ferretti proposes that the drawing may have been associated with a monument of Admiral Antonio Priuli, Giovanni Cornaro's predecessor as Doge. Priuli's daughter married Cornaro's other son.
Of the Bernini drawings from the Viggiano collection, one is in the Katalan collection; another in the Polakovitz collection, now on loan to the Fogg Museum of Art; and a third, relating to frescoes designed by Bernini but executed by Gaulli in the Gesù, Rome, was sold at Christie's, 10 December 1991, lot 139, illustrated.