The Angel Appearing to Hagar in the Desert
c. 1660
Artist, Italian, 1612 - 1666
Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 18.9 x 27 cm (7 7/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.130.b
Associated Artworks
The Angel Appearing to Hagar in the Desert (recto)
Pier Francesco Mola
1655
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jan Pietersz Zoomer, Amsterdam (1641 - 1724) (Lugt 1511). Jonathan Richardson, Sr., London (1665 - 1745) (Lugt 2184). Earl Spencer, Althorp (18th century) (Lugt 1531). (sale, T. Philipe, London, 14 June 1811, part of lot 494). (sale, Sotheby's London, 23 March 1972, no. 100); (Alfred Brod, London, 1972); Armando Neerman, London; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1995
Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 31.
1996
Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 31.
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 34.
Inscriptions
lower right, brown ink, A: v: D.
Watermarks
six-pointed star in a circle [Briquet 6089]
Wikidata ID
Q64619552