Abraham Entertaining the Angels, 1610/1620

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with wash over black chalk and graphite on laid paper; laid down

Dimensions

Overall: 33.6 x 23.7 cm (13 1/4 x 9 5/16 in.)
support: 39.8 x 29.5 cm (15 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Alice Steiner, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.63.1

Artists / Makers

Jan Tengnagel (artist) Dutch, 1584 - 1635

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Feist Gallery, Herbert E.
Steiner, John H., Mrs.

Exhibition History

1973: European Drawings, Herbert E. Feist Gallery, New York, 1973, no. 35 (as Lambert Jacobsz).

1977: Renaissance and Baroque Drawings from the Collections of John and Alice Steiner, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, and tour, 1977-1978, no. 56.

1977: Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, International Exhibitions Foundation, 1977, no. 12.

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.