The Angel Carrying off Habakkuk by His Hair, Surrounded by an Elaborate Rococo Frame

The Angel Carrying off Habakkuk by His Hair, Surrounded by an Elaborate Rococo Frame by Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite, heightened with white gouache and incised throughout, on two joined sheets of blue laid paper, the verso reddened for transfer

Dimensions

sheet: 50.9 x 70.6 cm (20 1/16 x 27 13/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Accession Number

2007.111.4

About the Artist

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

Comment on works: Religious; Mythology

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