An Angel Carrying a Torch
Filippino Lippi
c. 1500/1504
Medium
pen and brown ink and gray wash on laid paper
Dimensions
overall (maximum measurement): 20.6 x 13 cm (8 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1991.190.1.f
About the Artist
Filippino Lippi · 1457–1504
Filippino Lippi was born around 1457 in Prato, the illegitimate son of the celebrated Florentine painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the nun Lucrezia Buti, who later received a papal dispensation to marry. The family moved to Spoleto, where young Filippino assisted in his father's workshop on the fresco cycle *Life of the Virgin* in the cathedral. Following Fra Filippo's death in 1469, when Filippino wa...