Angel Standing

c. 1637/1639

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Workshop of Rembrandt van Rijn

Attributed to

This is a drawing of an angel standing, wearing flowing robes with large wings extending from its back. The angel's head is slightly bowed and the hands are raised. The figure is in profile, and its bare feet are visible on the ground. There is no color and the figure is sketched in brown ink.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over traces of charcoal on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 12.8 x 7.1 cm (5 1/16 x 2 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.661

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, no. C 32

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

K.E. von Liphart (L.1687), R. von Liphart (L.1758),NGA

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1954

  • Drawings and Watercolors by Flemish and Dutch Masters, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954.

Bibliography

1973

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. C32 (as "copy of an unknown original")

2006

  • Dittrich, Christian, Thomas Ketelsen, et al. Rembrandt: Die Dresdener Zeichnungen. Cologne, 2004: 146 (as Bol).

2012

  • Sutton, Peter C., and William W. Robinson. Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students, and His Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection. New Haven, 2012: under no. 22 (as part of a group attributed variously to Bol and Flinck).

Wikidata ID

Q64536906

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