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This print shows two people. One is an angel with large seafoam-green wings and long wavy blonde hair, wearing a red robe. They are floating in the air with one arm raised upwards and the other resting on the head of the second person, who kneels below them on the ground. The other person is a monk in a light brown robe with a hood resting on their back, holding an open green book in their right hand with their left hand extended outwards, the palm facing up. Both people are turned towards the right, and both have pale skin with slightly rosy cheeks. The sky behind them is beige, and the ground is a dark yellow color with some thin horizontal lines.
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This print shows two people. One is an angel with large seafoam-green wings and long wavy blonde hair, wearing a red robe. They are floating in the air with one arm raised upwards and the other resting on the head of the second person, who kneels below them on the ground. The other person is a monk in a light brown robe with a hood resting on their back, holding an open green book in their right hand with their left hand extended outwards, the palm facing up. Both people are turned towards the right, and both have pale skin with slightly rosy cheeks. The sky behind them is beige, and the ground is a dark yellow color with some thin horizontal lines.

National Gallery of Art · Print

A Monk with an Angel

German 15th Century

Date
1480/1490
Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in red, olive-gray, light green, olive, blue, yellow, and pink
Classification
Print
Accession number
1943.3.755
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Time span
1401 to 1500
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Angel
  • Male figure
  • Book
  • Rhenish
Provenance

Heinrich Kaspar Lempertz [1816-1898], Cologne; Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L.1760c and L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1943. [1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, _Recollections of a Collector_, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, _Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts_, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

NGA object ID 3970. 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.