Abraham Entertaining the Angels

1610/1620

Jan Tengnagel

Associated Names
Jan Tengnagel

Artist, Dutch, 1584 - 1635

This is a drawing depicting a historical scene outside a structure with elaborate drapery and winged figures. The image shows a group of figures gathered around a rectangular table with a detailed cloth cover, near a house or building. The figures are intricately dressed in flowing garments, with some adorned with wings. The scene also includes architectural elements like a building with a visible window and door, set against a landscape with trees and a distant view of mountains. Dramatic clouds fill the sky, adding depth to the setting. The drawing uses fine lines and shading to give texture and dimension to the figures and the environment.

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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

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