Category
Drawing-WatercolorMedium
PencilType of Artwork
Original artworkCertificate issued by
Mattia JonaSize of the artwork
17 x 11 cm(6.69 x 4.33 in)
Invoice issued by
Mattia JonaCondition
good conditionArtwork description
Andrea I APPIANI
(1754-1817)
ALLEGORICAL FIGURE OF WINGED VICTORY
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Pencil on laid paper, 173 x 111 mm.
The drawing is connected with the
monochrome frieze painted by Appiani between 1803 and 1807 for the Sala
delle Cariatidi in Palazzo Reale of Milan, destroyed by the bombings of
1943. The frieze is documented by a series of prints wanted by Napoleon
himself, realized under Appiani’s direction between 1807 and 1816,
which first complete edition appeared in Milan in 1818.
Our
drawing is a study for the figure of Victory standing between the
commemorative medallions for the victory of Jena and Eylau and the other
one for Friedland.
LITERATURE:
Our drawing has been published in Vittoria Orlandi Balzari, Biografia di Andrea Appiani, Bosisio Parini, 2009;p. 170, fig. 32.