Saint Michael and the Rebel Angels

c. 1682

Gregorio De Ferrari

Associated Names
Gregorio De Ferrari

Artist, Genoese, 1647 - 1726

This is a drawing of an angelic figure fighting demon beings in a cloudy and cherubic environment. The central figure is an angel wielding a sword aggressively. There are smaller angelic or cherubic figures surrounding and watching the scene. The artwork is done in monochromatic tones with detailed line work.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Elizabeth White Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.165.4


Artwork history & notes

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

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

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

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

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.


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