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Sketches of Six Statues: Magdalen by Canova, Divine Love by Bienaimé, Praying Angel, Boxer by Canova, Trust in God by Bartolini, and Madonna by Raphael
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Sketches of Six Statues: Magdalen by Canova, Divine Love by Bienaimé, Praying Angel, Boxer by Canova, Trust in God by Bartolini, and Madonna by Raphael

Medium

Graphite, with inscriptions in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

sheet: 9 3/16 x 7 3/8 in. (23.4 x 18.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John De Witt Peltz, 1977

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About John Gibson

1790–1866United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandWales

Outstanding Neoclassical sculptor who experimented with the ancient practice of coloring statues, e.g. his 'Tinted Venus' (1851). Flaxman encourgaged him to go to Rome, where he spent most of his life. He left his fortune to the National Gallery, London. British sculptor, active Rome. Comment on works: sculptor