The Holy Angels Protecting a Hermit from Evils, 1726

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Medium

brown ink and gray wash over traces of graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (irregularly shaped): 26.5 x 15 cm (10 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2000.130.1

Artists / Makers

Johann Georg Bergmüller (artist) German, 1688 - 1762

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in brown ink: JGB (in monogram) 1726; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 52

Provenance

Private collection, Oklahoma (in a scrapbook assembled in the 18th or 19th century). Private Collection, Pasadena. (Monroe Warshaw, Kunstkabinett, New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Warshaw, Monroe

Bibliography

2004: Strasser, Josef. Johann Georg Bergmüller 1688-1762, Die Zeichnungen. Exh cat. Salzburger Barockmuseum and Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, 2004-2005, no. 18 (Z 32).