Fortitude, Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Rome
Fortitude, Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Rome
Fortitude, Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Rome
Fortitude, Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Rome

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Fortitude, Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Rome,

ca. 1760

Jean-Robert Ango, French, died after 1773
after Camillo Rusconi, Italian, 1658–1728
formerly attributed to Augustin Pajou, French, 1730–1809
x1948-410
Here the diagonal movement in depth of a Virtue seems to have interested Pajou. He annotated the drawing "al Collegio Romano in Roma" as a reminder that the figure is in a church attached to what was then the Jesuit college in Rome. Pajou drew after a wide variety of sculptures, creating a repertory on paper that he could consult later. Making drawings served, moreover, as an exercise for closely studying and reproducing on paper the forms created by the great masters, both painters and sculptors.

Information

Title
Fortitude, Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Rome
Dates

ca. 1760

Maker
Jean-Robert Ango
after Camillo Rusconi
Medium
Black chalk
Dimensions
27.2 x 20.7 cm. (10 11/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-410
Place Depicted

Europe, Italy, Rome

Inscription
in brown ink, center right: al Collegio Romano in Roma in graphite, verso lower left: 7389 [in circle] PAJOU 34 25/ in graphite, verso lower center: E 36 [with X above in red pencil] 1925 [in Platt hand] B[illegible] | Mars
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in blue, verso lower left: D.F.P. [in circle] [Lugt 750a]
Culture
French
Type
drawings
Materials
laid paper, black chalk
Subject
women, goddesses, lions, armor, Minerva

Purchased, probably in London, in 1925 by Dan Fellows Platt, stamp (L. 750a), verso, lower left, in blue.

formerly attributed to Augustin Pajou, French, 1730–1809

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