A terracotta figure of Archangel Raphael as a pilgrim
Painted terracotta with glass eyes. The extended forearm restored. Head and wings reattached. A small hole in the back of the head presumably for mounting a (now lost) metal halo. H 37.5 cm.
Naples, attributed to the workshop of Giuseppe Sanmartino (1720 - 1793).
Provenance
Private collection, Berlin.
Literature
Cf. a signed terracotta sculpture of Saint Vincent Ferrer by Sanmartino in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 1996.93.
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