Figure Studies after Rubens's "Fall of the Rebel Angels"
In this drawing based on a reproductive print by Richard van Orley after Rubens’s painting "The Fall of the Rebel Angels" (ca. 1621; Alte Pinakothek, Munich), Delacroix copied a vertical column of falling figures, preserving their relative spatial arrangement from his source.
Artwork Details
- Title: Figure Studies after Rubens's "Fall of the Rebel Angels"
- Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris)
- Artist: After Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp)
- Date: ca. 1820–22
- Medium: Graphite
- Dimensions: sheet: 8 1/4 x 12 3/8 in. (20.9 x 31.4 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 2013
- Object Number: 2013.1135.30
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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