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The Deluge

Artist/Maker (French, flourished 1759–1770, died after 1772)
after (Italian, 1475–1564)
Date1767
MediumRed chalk on thin white paper, attached to off-white heavy laid paper
DimensionsOverall: 8 3/4 × 16 1/4 in. (22.2 × 41.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Paul Drey Gallery
Object number1963.1
Status
Not on view
More Information
Not much is known of this French artist who, like many of his countrymen, worked in Rome in the mid-18th century. He was known to have arrived there by 1760, and many of his surviving drawings, such as this one, are copies of paintings and other decoration in Roman churches; this drawing is a copy after Michelangelo's fresco in the Sistine Chapel. Ango also is known to have traveled to Naples with the artist Fragonard.
Exhibition History
French Artists in Italy, 17th to 19th Centuries
  • The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (October 15, 1971 - November 28, 1971 )
Investigating Romanticism, 1750-1850: A Century of Contrasts
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 28, 1980 - November 23, 1980 )
Working Drawings
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 24, 1981 - April 27, 1981 )
Eighteenth Century Prints and Drawings from the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29, 1989 - October 22, 1989 )
On Line: European Drawings, 16th-19th Centuries
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 18, 2007 - January 27, 2008 )
Artists on Artists
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 7, 2012 - July 29, 2012 )
Collections
  • European