Head of an Angel in Profile View (Cartoon Fragment for the Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, Stanza di Eliodoro)
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Artwork Details
- Title: Head of an Angel in Profile View (Cartoon Fragment for the Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, Stanza di Eliodoro)
- Artist: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
- Date: ca. 1512
- Medium: Charcoal, black chalk, traces of white gouache highlights, outlines pricked for transfer of the design on two glued sheets of paper; with numerous integrations of the original support; small bits of the drawn outlines reinforced by restorers (back of ear, underside of the nose, fulcrum and upper lip, which are all part of a long horizontal band extending from the lower cheek to the back of the neck, then along bits of the chin, underside of jaw, upper right and lower left corners); glued onto a Mariette mount (secondary paper support)
- Dimensions: 10 7/8 × 13 7/16 in. (27.6 × 34.1 cm)
Framed: 18 9/16 in. × 23 7/16 in. × 7/8 in. (47.2 × 59.5 × 2.3 cm) - Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts Graphiques, Paris (3852)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints