An Angel, c. 1600

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Medium

brush and brown ink, heightened with white, on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 41.2 x 25.8 cm (16 1/4 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Julius S. Held Collection

Accession Number

1985.1.9

Artists / Makers

Daniele Crespi (artist) Italian, 1597/1600 - 1630

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in pen and brown ink: 140; center verso in red chalk:maret; upper right verso in graphite: 24; lower left verso in graphite: 1861

Provenance

Cavriani collection, Bologna, 18th century; by inheritance to an Austrian collection; (Giorgio and Armando Neerman, London and Bologna); (Herbert E. Feist Gallery, New York, 1970); Julius S. Held [1905-2002], Old Bennington, VT, by 1979; gift to NGA in 1985.

Associated Names

Feist Gallery, Herbert E.
Held, Julius S., Professor
Neerman, Armando, Mr.

Exhibition History

1968: Disegni bolognesi dal XVI al XVIII secolo, Giorgio and Armando Neerman, Bologna and London, 1968, no. 45 (as Lorenzo Pasinelli).

1970: Herbert E. Feist Gallery, New York, 1970, no. 15.

1979: Master Drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; traveling exhibition, 1979, no. 20, as attributed to Lorenzo Pasinelli.

1990: Julius S. Held, Drawings from His Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, 1990, no. 30 (checklist).

Bibliography

2024: Bober, Jonathan. "Seventeenth-century Milanese drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and some associated collections."Arte Lombarda 200-201, no. 1-2 (2024): 83, fig. 18, pl. 9.