Design for the Upper Section of an Altar with Three Angels
Primary
Johann Georg Wagner
(1744–1767)
NationalityGerman, Europe
Date1779
MediumPen and black ink with watercolor over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 8 × 11 3/4 in. (20.3 × 29.8 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1437
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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1437
On View
Not on viewThis lovely study combines the evanescence of the late Baroque in the figures of the angels with an insistent architecture that is already Neoclassical. The attribution is based upon the signature and date at the bottom left, which are elaborated in a full, contemporary inscription on the verso. The artist is evidently not to be confused with a short-lived landscape painter and etcher of the same name (1744-1767) who worked at Meissen.
Exhibitions
Cherubino Alberti
1575
