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This black and white print shows an outdoor scene with lush leafy trees, open sky and mountains in the far distance. Two figures are walking along a wooded path in the foreground- one is a man with wings wearing robed garments and the other a younger man carrying a single large fish. There is a city shown in the middle distance through the trees and a pasture scene depicted on the right.
Hendrik Goudt
Tobias with the Angel Dragging the Fish (The Large Tobias)
1613
Museum Purchase
1972/1.165

Andrea Boscoli (Italian (culture or style))
Four Episodes in the Life of a Saint
16th century
Purchased from the Estate of Edward Sonnenschein
1970/2.75
Engraving of several figres including humans and mythological creatures. There are inscriptions above and below the depicted scene and it is bordered on three sides by a serpent.
William Blake
Then Satan Went Forth from the Presence of the Lord
03/08/1825
Museum Purchase
1975/2.3
Two columns of Latin text fill this page taken from a bible manuscript. A painting in a gold rectangular frame is located in the lower right column. An angel descends from a blue semicircular disc in the upper right corner of the painting and grasps a larger figure by the hair with both hands. This second figure holds a jug in his left hand and a plate with bread in his right. A third figure, dressed in a white robe, reaches up toward this larger figure from an enclosure below. He appears against a black background and four gray animal heads overlap his torso.
French (French (culture or style))
Leaf from a Bible with Daniel in the lions' den aided by the prophet Habakuk
1285 – 1295
Anonymous Gift in memory of Mrs. John Alexander
1993/2.10

Marc Chagall (Belorussian (culture or style))
The Bible: Abraham Approaching Sodom with Three Angels
1929 – 1930
Museum Purchase
1953/1.67

Aimé-Jules Dalou (French (culture or style))
Standing Angel Holding a Child: Study for a Memorial to Queen Victoria's Dead Grandchildren
1871 – 1881
Museum Purchase
1973/2.79

Albert Sterner (American (North American))
Lost Angel
1932
Gift of Edwin M. Otterbourg
1954/2.18

Rembrandt van Rijn
Abraham Entertaining the Angels
1656
Museum Purchase
1956/1.76
A three-quarter length angel, robustly carved in high relief, emerges from a cloud bank on the curved inner face of the console. The outer face of the console bears a tightly wound vine scroll carved in shallower relief with a bird at its center. The bird grasps the vine with its left leg while stretching back to grasp a cluster of grapes in its beak.
French (French (culture or style))
Console with bird in vine scroll, rinceau, and angel
1150 – 1175
Museum Purchase
1975/1.64
Saints below surrounding a stone pedestal with the inscription "Non est hic. Mat 28", with the Virgin Mary above in the clouds with arms spread out surrounded by smaller angels. At the bottom edge of the print is engraved (left) "Callot fecit" and (center right) "Israel ex. cum priuil. Reg.".
Jacques Callot (French (culture or style))
Assumption of the Virgin [L'Assomption]
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2013/2.543
A page from a manuscript depicting a woman, kneeling to be crowned, while a standing man blesses her. She is surrounded by a court of angels in an architectural setting in the clouds.
Coronation of the Virgin
1508
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2013/2.558

David Courlander
The Sacrifice of Abraham
1900 – 1961
Gift of Harold Courlander
1985/2.90
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