Assumption of the Virgin after Domenico Passignano (recto); Head of a Man (verso)

We are grateful to the scholar Miles Chappell for identifying the Roman altarpiece Robert Ango copied in this study of the Assumption of the Virgin. It is after Domenico Passignano's altarpiece (1604-16) in the Barberini Chapel in the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle, Rome.The French artist Robert Ango lived in Rome in the early 1760s and produced countless red chalk drawings copying Italian paintings from the preceding century.