An Angel Holding Out a Child

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Dimensionsh x w: Mått 26,3 x 17,6 cm

Inventory numberNMH 1469/1863

AcqusitionTransferred 1866 from Kongl. Museum (Carl Gustaf Tessin)

Other titlesTitle (sv): En ängel som håller ett barn Title (en): An Angel Holding Out a Child Inventory title (sv): Engel hållande ett litet barn i armarna

DescriptionDescription: Watermark Fragment of a lily and a B. Numbered at right in pen and brown ink: 1285 (Sparre), at lower right 1334 (struck out). This sheet cannot be traced back beyond the inventor of 1790, where it is ascribed to Andrea Celesti. Only a few drawings undoubtedly by Celesti are known, one being in the Morassi collection in Milan, another in Museo Correr, Venice. The Albertina in Vienna has a sheet with a traditional attribution to him, while one in the Uffizi, Florens is more doubtful. The picture to be derived from these sheets of Celesti´s art as a draughtsman is by no means uniform and under no circumstances can they be said to support an attribution of our drawing to Celesti. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 234]

Collection

Geographical origin

MaterialInk, Red crayon (Crayon), Paper

TechniqueDrawing