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God the Father and Angels
Unknownca. 1750–1800
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
God the Father is flying, arms outstretched. An angel is kneeling immediately beneath him upon a cloud, upon which four other angles are also kneeling and sitting further down. A small angel holds a palm branch.
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Details
- Title: God the Father and Angels
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: ca. 1750–1800
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Black and red chalk on thick cream paper
- Provenance: Ex-collection: Giovanni Piancastelli
- Exhibitions: Wellesley, Mass.- Wellesley College, "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum", Sept. 12 - Nov. 22, 1970.New York, NY- Finch College Museum of Art, "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum", Feb. 4 - March 20, 1970. Huntington, L.I.-The Heckscher Museum, "The Last Flowering of Religious Art", Feb.16 - Mar. 31, 1968.
- Dimensions: 47.5 x 32.5 cm (18 11/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
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