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The image shows a child-like figure in a floating or flying stance, with arms and legs extended. The facial features include a smiling mouth, closed eyes, and wavy hair. The figure is unclothed, with additional sketches of hands nearby. The background is a plain, textured surface.
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The image shows a child-like figure in a floating or flying stance, with arms and legs extended. The facial features include a smiling mouth, closed eyes, and wavy hair. The figure is unclothed, with additional sketches of hands nearby. The background is a plain, textured surface.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

An Angel in Flight

Jacopo da Empoli

Date
c. 1594
Medium
black chalk and graphite on brown prepared paper
Dimensions
overall: 38.3 x 25 cm (15 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1999.29.1
Credit line
Gift of Diane Allen Nixon
Time span
1551 to 1600
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Florentine
  • angels
  • religious
Provenance

(Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich); (sale, Christie's, New York, 28 January 1999, no. 43); NGA purchase (via W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York), in 1999.

NGA object ID 108721. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.