Study for the head of an angel
Artista Genovese
(Second half of the 17th century.)
- Black stone
- 170 x 145 mm
The delicate and continuous line of the sheet under examination, combined with a suffused chiaroscuro and an idealized setting of the face, refers more generally to the sphere of Genoese figurative culture between the late 17th and early 18th centuries, within which the experiences of the artists Domenico Piola and Gregorio De Ferrari are placed.