About the Artwork
The Archangel Michael
1836
Franz August Schubert
1806-1893
German
Unknown
Watercolor over graphite pencil on cream wove paper
Sheet: 15 3/8 × 9 7/8 inches (39.1 × 25.1 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR263
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in margin lower left: Lucas Signorelli p. Inscribed, in margin lower right: copint v. F. Schubert 1836 in Orvieto das Original |[illegible] Leipzig
Collector's mark: Berk of Dessan
Provenance
Berk [black collector's mark below lower right corner of composition] (Dessau, Germany)
1889, F. Meyer (Dresden,Germany)
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, p. 64, no. 21 (ill.).
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Franz August Schubert, The Archangel Michael, 1836, watercolor over graphite pencil on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR263.
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