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Jean-Robert Ango died circa 1773
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Description
- Jean-Robert Ango
- view of the sistine chapel, seen from the via del governatorato
- signed and dated in brown ink, lower right: J.R. Angö. 1768.
- inscribed in brown ink on old mount: Vue de la fabrique de la chapelle Sixtine du four de St. Pierre:.;
red chalk
Provenance
with Seiferheld and Co., New York;
Christian Humann, New York;
his estate sale, New York, Sotheby's, 30 April, 1982, lot 80;
private collection, New York
Christian Humann, New York;
his estate sale, New York, Sotheby's, 30 April, 1982, lot 80;
private collection, New York
Catalogue Note
Ango was a friend of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, but other than this, little is known of him. His hand was identified by Alexandre Ananoff, and is known from numerous copies after Fragonard, Hubert Robert, Michelangelo and Rembrandt. He was described as a painter in the autobiography of another friend, Jean-Antoine Julien, although only his drawings have survived. Julien also noted that Ango was in Rome by November 1760, and we can presume from the date of this drawing that he stayed in Italy for much of the decade. Signed and dated works by Ango are very rare.