Joseph Goupy, 1689–1769, Britishafter Raphael, Italian, 1483–1520, Italian
Title:
Death of Ananias
Date:
1740
Materials & Techniques:
Gouache and graphite on vellum
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 18 inches (30.2 x 45.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1986.13
Gallery Label:
In 1736 the French-born Joseph Goupy was appointed by Frederick, Prince of Wales, as his "cabinet painter." Goupy's duties included looking after Frederick's art collection and presumably painting copies after famous works such as The Death of Ananias from Raphael's celebrated cartoons at Hampton Court (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum). Frederick certainly owned a set of Goupy copies after the Raphael cartoons, but it is not clear whether that was the same set earlier owned by the Duke of Chandos, from which this Version of The Death of Ananias comes.\n\n Gallery label for The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)