Saint Michael and the Rebel Angels, c. 1682

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk, on gray-green paper

Dimensions

sheet: 47 × 29.1 cm (18 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.)

framed: 76.84 × 61.6 cm (30 1/4 × 24 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Elizabeth White Fund

Accession Number

2018.165.4

Artists / Makers

Gregorio De Ferrari (artist) Genoese, 1647 - 1726

Image Use

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Provenance

Abbé Thulin, Paris (as Luca Giordano), according to a photo in the Frick Art Reference Library. Galerie de Fleurville, Paris; to a private collector in 1959/1960; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 January 1994, no. 226, as attrib. to Domenico Piola); (Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Stanza del Borgo

Exhibition History

2020: A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020, no. 83 (shown only in Washington, Washington venue canceled).

Bibliography

1994: Bareggi, Silvana. Disegni di Maestri dal XVI al XX secolo. Stanza del Borgo, Milan, 1994: 28-29, no. 13 (color).

1994: Newcome, Mary. "Gregorio de Ferrari and the Influence of Domenico Fiasella on His Work." Antichità viva 4 (1994): 27-28, 30, fig. 12

1998: Newcome Schleier, Mary. Gregorio De Ferrari. Turin, 1998: 42 (under cat. 26), 150-151, cat. D18, color plate XXXIII, fig. 26a.

2019: Bober, Jonathan. "Genoese Baroque Drawings." National Gallery of Art Bulletin, No. 60(Spring, 2019): 28, 29 (color).

2020: Bober, Jonathan. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750,Exh cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington: 254, no. 83.