Angel Blowing a Trumpet

Cleveland Museum of Art

Angel Blowing a Trumpet

Edgar DegasLinkedCulture matchlcp-568c79847d76

Date
1857–59
Medium
black chalk
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
148672

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The figure in this drawing closely resembles a number of trumpeting angels in drawings that Edgar Degas made between 1856 and 1858 in preparation for an ambitious but ultimately unrealized history painting on the subject of Saint John the Evangelist accompanied by an angel. Rather than referring to any single passage in the Book of Revelation, Degas distilled an image from passages describing seven trumpeting angels who unleash destruction on earth with their blasts, the voice of Christ that addresses John in loud tones "like a trumpet," and individual angels who lead and instruct the Evangelist. Related studies suggest that the subject is a male model; Degas added breasts almost as an afterthought.

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Credit line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
Provenance
?-1936: Monsieur Romanelli | 1936: (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dessins, tableaux, estampes par Cézanne, Degas, Forain...tout appartenant à monsieur R., November 21, 1936, no. 8) | ?-?: Professor François Lyon, Lyon | ?-1976: (Hector Brame-Jean Lorenceau, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1976-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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