Abraham Entertaining the Angels
1610/1620
Artist, Dutch, 1584 - 1635
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with wash over black chalk and graphite on laid paper; laid down
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Credit Line
Gift of Alice Steiner, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
Overall: 33.6 x 23.7 cm (13 1/4 x 9 5/16 in.)
support: 39.8 x 29.5 cm (15 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1990.63.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
"Colnagy Collection," according to an old inscription on the verso. (Herbert Feist Gallery, NY, 1973); Alice Steiner, Larchmont, NY, by 1977; gift to NGA in 1990.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1973
European Drawings, Herbert E. Feist Gallery, New York, 1973, no. 35 (as Lambert Jacobsz).
1977
Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, International Exhibitions Foundation, 1977, no. 12.
Renaissance and Baroque Drawings from the Collections of John and Alice Steiner, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, and tour, 1977-1978, no. 56.
1991
Art for the Nation, Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, pp. 50-51.
Bibliography
1975
Sumowski, Werner. "Zeichnungen von Lastman und aus dem Lastman-Kreis." Giessener Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte 3 (1975): 174.
Inscriptions
all by later hand, center verso in graphite: Pieter Lastman / Amsterdam / 1583-1633; lower left verso in graphite: ABRAHAM-THE ANGEL; lower right verso in graphite: Colnagy Collectio
Wikidata ID
Q64580769