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Archangel Michael  wikidata:Q116456997 reasonator:Q116456997
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Drawn by: Anonymous

After: Jan van Eyck (?)
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Title
drawing
Object type drawing Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: St Michael; standing to front with wings outstretched and a sword raised above his head, devilish creatures around him
Pen and black ink with grey wash, on vellum
Depicted people Representation of: Archangel Michael
Date 1440-1450 (c.)
Medium vellum
Dimensions
Height: 188 millimetres
Width: 138 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1895,0915.958
Notes

There are a number of related versions and copies of the same composition, for which see exhibition catalogue by Koreny. Probably after Jan van Eyck, because of stylistic analogies with the 'Last Judgment' painting in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Also closely related to the engraving by Master E.S., dated in 1467.

Literature: F. Winkler, 'Einige Ergebnisse des Van Eyckforschung', in Actes du XVIIe congrès international d'histoire de l'art', The Hague, 1956, pp.237-46 (based on lost Van Eyck composition); Fritz Koreny, 'Early Netherlandish Drawings from Jan van Eyck to Hieronymus Bosch', exh.cat. Rubenshuis Antwerp, 2002, cat.no.7 (described as having a 'soft preparatory drawing in silverpoint' but this has not been recognised by AVC); Till-Holger Borchert (ed.), 'Van Eyck to Dürer', exh.cat. Groeningemuseum, Bruges, 2010, p.211, cat.no.32 (as after Jan van Eyck).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0915-958
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