depicts: angel

instance of: painting (729) | watercolor painting (55) | sculpture (48) | triptych (30) | fresco (21) | reredos (19) | drawing (13) | statue (11) | icon (10) | altarpiece (10) | polyptych (7) | sculpture capital (7) | print (5) | diptych (4) | stained glass (4) | Keystone (Stargate) (4) | monument (4) | illumination (3)

commissioned by: Pierre Polet (3) | Étienne Chevalier (2) | Catholic Church (1) | Urban VIII (1) | Marie de' Medici (1) | Manuel I of Portugal (1) | Clemens August of Bavaria (1) | Eleanor of Viseu (1) | Philip the Bold (1) | Nicolas Rolin (1) | Isabella d'Este (1) | Parliament of Paris (1) | Felice Brancacci (1) | Gregorio Correr (1) | Enrico degli Scrovegni (1) | Jean de Sedano (1) | Jacopo Pesaro (1) | Alessandro Scaglia (1)

owned by: Birmingham Museum of Art (9) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (6) | France (5) | Herbert Cook (5) | Catholic Church (3) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (3) | National Gallery (3) | John G. Johnson (3) | Bern (2) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Robert Lehman (2) | George Salting (2) | Léon de Somzée (2) | Catalina von Pannwitz (2) | Michael Friedsam (2) | Belgium (1) | Paris (1) | Padua (1)

movement: Flemish Primitives (38) | Italian Renaissance (18) | High Renaissance (18) | Baroque (17) | Early Renaissance (14) | mannerism (10) | Venetian school (7) | Gothic art (5) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (5) | Renaissance sculpture (5) | Proto-Renaissance (5) | Dutch Golden Age painting (5) | Renaissance (4) | Romanesque art (4) | German Renaissance (4) | academic art (3) | Gothic painting (3) | Renaissance art (3)

genre: religious art (579) | history painting (46) | religious painting (30) | nude (23) | portrait (20) | allegory (19) | religious sculpture (17) | mythological painting (13) | genre art (10) | landscape art (9) | self-portrait (6) | public art (6) | three-quarter portait (6) | full-length portrait (5) | still life (3) | Christian art (3) | group portrait (3) | profile (3)

based on: the Lord appears to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre (8) | Annunciation (5) | New Testament (4) | Madonna and Child (4) | flight into Egypt (3) | Book of Genesis (2) | Old Testament (2) | Revelation of John (2) | resurrection of Jesus (2) | Nativity of Jesus (2) | Saint George and the Dragon (2) | Jacob wrestling with the angel (2) | Madonna of humility (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | Vita Nuova (1) | gospel (1) | Judges (1) | Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (1)

artist: anonymous (82) | Oreste Sercelli (49) | Hans Memling (12) | Raphael (11) | Peter Paul Rubens (10) | Fra Angelico (10) | Sandro Botticelli (10) | Gerard David (10) | Rembrandt (7) | Giotto di Bondone (7) | Caravaggio (7) | Jan van Eyck (7) | Annibale Carracci (6) | Nicolas Poussin (6) | Titian (6) | Guido Reni (6) | Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (6) | Domenichino (6)

part of the series: Cycle of four altar pieces for the patron saints of Siena (1) | May (painting) (1)

material used: oil paint (522) | canvas (251) | wood (136) | tempera (88) | panel (78) | watercolor paint (42) | poplar wood (26) | gold (22) | oak (22) | stone (19) | fresco (18) | copper (15) | paper (14) | marble (14) | canvas (14) | watercolor painting (12) | limestone (8) | bronze (6)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (163) | Museu Paulista collection (51) | Oreste Sercelli Collection (49) | National Museum in Warsaw (43) | Musée des Augustins (37) | private collection (24) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (20) | Museo del Prado (18) | Condé Museum (15) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (14) | National Gallery (14) | Museo Nacional de Arte (13) | Louvre Museum (12) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (11) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (11) | Gemäldegalerie (9) | National Museum of Ancient Art (9) | Birmingham Museum of Art (9)

location: Museu Paulista (51) | museum's storage space (23) | Paris (20) | Museo del Prado (18) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (16) | Room 710 (16) | Room 709 (16) | National Museum in Warsaw (14) | Condé Museum (14) | National Gallery (13) | Museo Nacional de Arte (13) | Piazzetta (13) | Room 716 (13) | private collection (11) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (11) | None (11) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (10) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (9)

part of: works by Biagio Bellotti (4) | Welsh Portrait Collection (4) | Christ with singing and music-making Angels (3) | Saint Cecilia Cycle (3) | Ciudad Rodrigo altarpiece (3) | Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (2) | Ghent Altarpiece (2) | Cycle of the Life of Joachim (2) | None (2) | The San Pier Maggiore Altarpiece (2) | Angels by Bernini for the Sant'Angelo Bridge (2) | Category:Public art in Bern (2) | Sistine Chapel (1) | reredos (1) | Virgin of the rocks (1) | Maestà (1) | Sistine Chapel ceiling (1) | Scrovegni Chapel (1)

country of origin: Brazil (51) | Italy (25) | United States of America (12) | Spain (3) | Portugal (3) | France (3) | England (2) | Romania (1) | Byzantine Empire (1)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (18) | Exposition des primitifs français (14) | Europeana 280 (9) | Corps et Ombres (4) | Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of genius (2) | Florentine Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum (2) | San Francisco (1) | Warsaw (1) | Budapest (1) | Verona (1) | Madrid (1) | Strasbourg (1) | Bucharest (1) | Nashville (1) | Bourg-en-Bresse (1) | Santi Giovanni e Paolo (1) | Bode Museum (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)

main subject: Annunciation (80) | Madonna and Child (62) | Nativity of Jesus (15) | Sacra Conversazione (13) | Day of Judgment (11) | Adoration of the shepherds (10) | Assumption of Mary (9) | Coronation of the Virgin (9) | Agony in the Garden (9) | Binding of Isaac (9) | rest on the flight into Egypt (7) | resurrection of Jesus (6) | crucifixion of Jesus (6) | Pietà (6) | Adoration of the Magi (6) | flight into Egypt (6) | Annunciation to the shepherds (6) | Immaculate Conception of Mary (5)

donated by: J. P. Morgan (1) | Theodore M. Davis (1) | Robert Lehman (1) | Michael Friedsam (1)

location of final assembly: Italy (4) | Germany (3) | Venice (3) | Florence (2) | Seville (2) | Europe (1) | France (1) | Cologne (1) | Siena (1) | Asolo (1) | Santi Giovanni e Paolo (1) | Levallois-Perret (1) | Tournai (1) | Scrovegni Chapel (1) | Villa Medici (1)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (4) | Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Florentine School/ (2) | A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350–1600 (1) | Flemish Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)

fabrication method: fresco painting (20) | chiaroscuro (7) | bas-relief (6) | oil painting (5) | relief sculpture (5) | wash (4) | haut-relief technique (3) | polychromy (2) | chalcography (2) | stipple engraving (2) | embroidery (1) | engraving process (1) | grisaille (1) | bobbin lace (1) | quilting (1) | print (1) | appliqué (1) | tapestry weaving (1)

time period: Roman Empire (1) | 19th century (1)