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Source Description
This sheet of studies in red chalk was made in preparation for the composition Miriam Leading
the Chorus of Women Who Give Thanks for the Routing of Pharaoh, a final episode in the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt. The Bolognese artist Marcantonio Franceschini painted the cartoon of the complete composition between 1711 and 1712, and it was used to decorate an important papal building, the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome, where it remains today. While the studies of feet and the head and shoulders with raised arms are for the principal figure of Miriam playing the tambourine, the arm on the right and the two hands holding a rod are studies for an attendant figure who plays the triangle behind Miriam.
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163055
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Study of a Young Woman Playing a Tambourine, and Studies of an Arm, Hands, and Feet (Studies for "Miriam Leading the Chorus of Women Who Give Thanks for the Routing of Pharoah"
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163055
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drawing
title
Study of a Young Woman Playing a Tambourine, and Studies of an Arm, Hands, and Feet (Studies for "Miriam Leading the Chorus of Women Who Give Thanks for the Routing of Pharoah"
description
This sheet of studies in red chalk was made in preparation for the composition Miriam Leading
the Chorus of Women Who Give Thanks for the Routing of Pharaoh, a final episode in the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt. The Bolognese artist Marcantonio Franceschini painted the cartoon of the complete composition between 1711 and 1712, and it was used to decorate an important papal building, the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome, where it remains today. While the studies of feet and the head and shoulders with raised arms are for the principal figure of Miriam playing the tambourine, the arm on the right and the two hands holding a rod are studies for an attendant figure who plays the triangle behind Miriam.
date
c. 1711
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q79988477
creators
44066
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 25.3 x 35.1 cm (9 15/16 x 13 13/16 in.); Secondary Support: 31.6 x 43.6 cm (12 7/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
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Italy, 18th century
accession
2003.7
Source extras
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red chalk
tombstone
Study of a Young Woman Playing a Tambourine, and Studies of an Arm, Hands, and Feet (Studies for "Miriam Leading the Chorus of Women Who Give Thanks for the Routing of Pharoah", c. 1711. Marcantonio Franceschini (Italian, 1648–1729). Red chalk ; sheet: 25.3 x 35.1 cm (9 15/16 x 13 13/16 in.); secondary support: 31.6 x 43.6 cm (12 7/16 x 17 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Nancy West, 2003.7
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cream (3) laid paper
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DR - Italian
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inscription
inscribed: del franceschini
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Gift of Nancy West
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2026-05-29 08:28:28.304000
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163055
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Drawings
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DR - Italian
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red chalk
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male
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photo
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