Figure Studies after Rubens's "Fall of the Rebel Angels"

Figure Studies after Rubens's "Fall of the Rebel Angels"

Eugène Delacroix

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Figure Studies after Rubens's "Fall of the Rebel Angels"Figure Studies after Rubens's "Fall of the Rebel Angels"Figure Studies after Rubens's "Fall of the Rebel Angels"Figure Studies after Rubens's "Fall of the Rebel Angels"Figure Studies after Rubens's "Fall of the Rebel Angels"

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