Female Angel. Companion piece to NM 6862
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Dimensionsh x w: Mått 30 x 25 cm
Inventory numberNM 6863
Other titlesTitel (sv): Kvinnlig ängel. Motstycke till NM 6862 Titel (en): Female Angel. Companion piece to NM 6862 Titel (en): The Archangel Michael
DescriptionRes. Katalogtext: Description in Italian Paintings: Three Centuries of Collecting, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2015, cat.no. 133: TECHNICAL NOTES: The support is a single piece of thin white canvas glued to a thick hardwood board. The triangular shape is probably not original. The wood is worm-eaten. The gesso ground is white and thick, and there is a layer of red bole under the gilding. The paint layer and gilding are cracked and abraded, with several losses on the surface and along the edges. The painting is dirty. PROVENANCE: Purchased 1873. BIBLIOGRAPHY: NM. Cat. Suppl. 1996, p. 15; Nevin 2009. Together with the pinnacle depicting St Benedict of Nursia (NM 6862, cat. no. 130), this fragment once formed an upper part of a larger polyptych. On the present panel, an angel dressed in yellow with brown and golden ribbons carries a red shield and the cross and banner. In the 1996 Supplement to the 1990 Nationalmuseum catalogue of European paintings the panel is said to depict a “Female Angel”,¹ but the attributes indicate that this is the Archangel Michael, represented in a fairly traditional manner. Judging from the composition of the angel, the panel must have formed the upper part of a right-hand wing of a retable. Like NM 6862, this painting has been attributed to the anonymous Master of the Fogg Pietà.² For further discussion of the attribution, see the entry concerning NM 6862. On the verso, there is a fragmentary paper label with the following inscription in Swedish: “S.S.F.M. …fresco må…” The panel was acquired by the Nationalmuseum in 1873, together with its counterpart, NM 6862. je 1 NM. Cat. Suppl. 1996, p. 15. 2 Letter to the Nationalmuseum from Henk van Os, dated 30 January 1992, NM Archives, Dokumentationsarkivet, “Master of the Fogg Pietà”. [End]
Motif categoryReligion/Mythology
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TechniquePainting
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