The Fall of the Rebel Angels
1712/1715
Artist, Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk, and pen and black ink with gray wash; scattered unrelated touches of red chalk on left
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 34.5 × 46.7 cm (13 9/16 × 18 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1974.72.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Siegmund Nauheim, Frankfurt; Alberto Sichel Morales; (sale Christie's, London, 25 June 1974, no. 60, repro); purchased (via Yvonne tan Bunzl) by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1985
Figure Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 63.
Bibliography
1996
Tiepolo and His Circle. Drawings in American Collections. Fogg Art Museum, Cambirdge, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Cambridge, 1996: 16.
Inscriptions
by artist in black ink "Al Molto Ill Sig"; modern graphite "Kisti" (?)
Wikidata ID
Q64572366