RAMBOUX, Johann Anton Alban
(b. 1790, Trier, d. 1866, Köln)

Fresco cycle in Urbino

1832-42
Pen and ink over pencil, 295 x 445 mm
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

Ramboux's drawings of the fresco cycle in the Oratory of San Giovanni Battista, Urbino, showing only the scenes on the west wall of the oratory, suggest that by the nineteenth century a large portion of the paintings on the east wall were no longer visible.