Saint Matthew holding a book seated on a cloud surrounded by angels: a study for a pendentive

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Andrea Appiani (Milan 1754-1817)
Saint Matthew holding a book seated on a cloud surrounded by angels: a study for a pendentive
black chalk, watermark J.WHATMAN TURKEY MILL
16½ x 13 in. (420 x 331 mm.)

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Lot Essay

A study for one of the four pendentives in the cupola of Santa Maria presso San Celso in Milan painted in 1792-5 depicting the Four Evangelists (A. Zanchi, Andrea Appiani, Bologna, 1995, p. 234, fig. 18). In addition to these Appiani painted the Four Doctors of the Church between the Evangelists.

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