instance of: painting / depicts: angel

commissioned by: Pierre Polet (3) | Catholic Church (1) | Urban VIII (1) | Marie de' Medici (1) | Manuel I of Portugal (1) | Clemens August of Bavaria (1) | Eleanor of Viseu (1) | Étienne Chevalier (1) | Philip the Bold (1) | Nicolas Rolin (1) | Isabella d'Este (1) | Parliament of Paris (1) | Gregorio Correr (1) | Jean de Sedano (1) | Jacopo Pesaro (1) | Alessandro Scaglia (1) | Joan Llull (1) | Scuola de San Vincenzo Ferrer e San Piero Martire (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) | Robert Lehman (2) | George Salting (2) | Léon de Somzée (2) | Catalina von Pannwitz (2) | Michael Friedsam (2) | Belgium (1) | Paris (1) | Gustave Doré (1) | Dominican Order (1) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1)

movement: Flemish Primitives (36) | High Renaissance (16) | Italian Renaissance (15) | Baroque (12) | Early Renaissance (12) | mannerism (9) | Venetian school (6) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (5) | Dutch Golden Age painting (5) | Renaissance (3) | Gothic art (3) | academic art (3) | Renaissance art (3) | Symbolism (2) | International Gothic (2) | Gothic painting (2) | Proto-Renaissance (2) | German Renaissance (2)

genre: religious art (566) | history painting (44) | nude (17) | portrait (15) | allegory (15) | mythological painting (12) | landscape art (9) | genre art (9) | self-portrait (5) | three-quarter portait (5) | full-length portrait (4) | still life (3) | Christian art (3) | group portrait (3) | profile (2) | full-frontal portrait (2) | interior view (2) | portrait at bust length (1)

based on: the Lord appears to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre (7) | Madonna and Child (4) | New Testament (3) | Old Testament (2) | Nativity of Jesus (2) | Annunciation (2) | flight into Egypt (2) | Saint George and the Dragon (2) | Jacob wrestling with the angel (2) | Madonna of humility (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | Vita Nuova (1) | Revelation of John (1) | Judges (1) | Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (1) | Gospel of Matthew (1) | massacre of the Innocents (1) | Measure for Measure (1)

artist: Oreste Sercelli (49) | anonymous (41) | Raphael (10) | Peter Paul Rubens (10) | Sandro Botticelli (10) | Hans Memling (10) | Gerard David (10) | Fra Angelico (9) | Rembrandt (7) | Caravaggio (7) | Jan van Eyck (7) | Annibale Carracci (6) | Nicolas Poussin (6) | Titian (6) | Guido Reni (6) | Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (6) | Domenichino (6) | Jacek Malczewski (6)

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

material used: oil paint (512) | canvas (249) | wood (125) | tempera (81) | panel (74) | watercolor paint (39) | poplar wood (26) | gold (22) | oak (22) | copper (15) | canvas (14) | watercolor painting (12) | vellum (3) | board (3) | fresco (3) | paint (2) | cardboard (2) | gold leaf (2)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (159) | Museu Paulista collection (51) | Oreste Sercelli Collection (49) | National Museum in Warsaw (30) | private collection (22) | Museo del Prado (18) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (17) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (14) | National Gallery (13) | Museo Nacional de Arte (13) | Louvre Museum (12) | Condé Museum (12) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (11) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (11) | National Museum of Ancient Art (9) | Birmingham Museum of Art (9) | Musée des Augustins (9) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (9)

location: Museu Paulista (51) | Paris (20) | Museo del Prado (18) | Room 710 (16) | Room 709 (16) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (15) | museum's storage space (15) | National Museum in Warsaw (14) | Museo Nacional de Arte (13) | Piazzetta (13) | Room 716 (13) | National Gallery (12) | Condé Museum (12) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (11) | private collection (10) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (10) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (9) | Birmingham Museum of Art (9)

part of: works by Biagio Bellotti (4) | Christ with singing and music-making Angels (3) | Saint Cecilia Cycle (3) | Ciudad Rodrigo altarpiece (3) | Ghent Altarpiece (2) | None (2) | The San Pier Maggiore Altarpiece (2) | reredos (1) | Virgin of the rocks (1) | Maestà (1) | Scrovegni Chapel (1) | San Marco Altarpiece (1) | Baronci Altarpiece (1) | The Haywain Triptych (1) | Visions of the Hereafter (1) | Melun Diptych (1) | Cervara Polyptych (1) | Donne Triptych (1)

country of origin: Brazil (51) | Italy (24) | United States of America (11) | Spain (3) | Portugal (3) | France (2)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (16) | Exposition des primitifs français (12) | Europeana 280 (7) | 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 (73) | Madonna and Child (58) | Nativity of Jesus (14) | Sacra Conversazione (10) | Adoration of the shepherds (10) | Day of Judgment (10) | Agony in the Garden (9) | Assumption of Mary (8) | Coronation of the Virgin (8) | Binding of Isaac (8) | rest on the flight into Egypt (7) | resurrection of Jesus (6) | crucifixion of Jesus (6) | Pietà (6) | Annunciation to the shepherds (6) | Immaculate Conception of Mary (5) | Adoration of the Magi (5) | Holy Family (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) | Asolo (1) | Santi Giovanni e Paolo (1) | Tournai (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: chiaroscuro (7) | fresco painting (5) | oil painting (5)