The Angel Appearing to Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness, c. 1645

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 12.8 × 1.4 cm (5 1/16 × 9/16 in.)
mount: 23.5 × 29.4 cm (9 1/4 × 11 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ann Sutherland Harris

Accession Number

2018.178.3

Artists / Makers

Pier Francesco Mola (artist) Italian, 1612 - 1666

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hands, lower right verso in graphite: 2; Barbieri (Guercino) / 50 fr. / A.H.; AR / C/W

Provenance

Amédée-Paul-Emile Gasc [1817 - 1866], Paris (Lugt 1131). Albert-Léon-Victor Finot [1853 - 1941], Troyes (Lugt 3627). (Lorna Lowe, London, 1982); (sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 May 1985, no. 269); Professor Ann Sutherland Harris, Pittsburgh; (sale, Christie's, New York, 30 January 2018, no. 40, unsold); gift from Prof. Harris to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Harris, Ann Sutherland

Exhibition History

1982: Old Master Drawings, presented by Lorna Lowe. Julian Hartnoll Gallery, London, 1982, no. 25.

2004: Pittsburgh Collects: European Drawings, 1500 - 1800. Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, 2004 - 2005, no. 21 (entry by E. Kraus Roth).

Bibliography

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