Bust of an Angel
1609
- Medium
- Black chalk, oiled black chalk, heightened with white chalk
- Dimensions
- 55.6 × 39.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-209460
The large head of an angel in profile nearly fills the sheet of paper on which it is drawn. The grand scale of the image as well as the broad handling of the chalk are characteristic of Hendrick Goltzius's tendency to explore concerns more usually associated with painting in his later drawings. The figure in this drawing closely resembles the Archangel Gabriel in Goltzius's painting in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow; like this drawing, the painting is signed and dated 1609. This drawing was not made in preparation for the painting, however. Like several other large imaginary heads and figures Goltzius produced in this period, it was probably made as a finished work of art in its own right.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1609 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — drawings
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