1882 – Madonna di Loreto
Description:
A Madonna and child seated on the roof of a small plain building all of which is upheld by three angels in flight. A drawing in pen and iron-gall ink, pencil, with some alterations in blue/black ink on white wove paper, 23 x 37.7 cm., signed and dated lower left ‘Ad. Muller Rom 1882.’ The artist has added the suffix ‘-Ury’ in blue/black ink to the original iron-gall ink signature and for an unknown reason seems to have amended the date to 1884, presumably during the 1940s when he presented it to his friend Jessica Dragonette.
Location:
Private Collection, London, UK.
Provenance:
The artist; Jessica Dragonette; her husband Nicholas M. Turner until 1995 when presented to the present owner.
The drawing was cleaned and restored in September 1996 by Sally Esdaile, when the buckling grey backing card to which the drawing had been stuck was removed. The artist had inscribed on the card the words, ‘The Ideal Angel carried to heaven and anxiously expected by a devoted friend.’
