Saint Michael and the Rebel Angels
c. 1682
Artist, Genoese, 1647 - 1726
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk, on gray-green paper
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Credit Line
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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
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.