Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire
Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire
- Artist
- Giuseppe Angeli
- Artist Dates
- 1712-1798
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire
- Date
- c. 1740/1755
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 174.6 x 264.8 cm (68 3/4 x 104 1/4 in)
- K Number
- K1810
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1952.5.70
- Notes
Provenance
San Giorgio in Alga, Venice, until 1806 or 1807. [1] Pivan collection, Venice, by 1934. [2] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence); purchased 1950 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [3] gift 1952 to NGA. [1] Zanetti, Anton Maris, _Della pittura veneziana e delle oper pubbliche de' veneziani maestri_, Venice, 1771: 477 (reprinted Venice, 1972). The church and monastery were suppressed in 1806 and the works of art removed in 1807; Zorzi, Alvise, _Venezia scomparsa_, 2 vols., Venice, 1972: 2:405-406. [2] According to Pallucchini, Rodolfo, "Il pittore Francesco Polazzo," _Rivista di Venezia_ (1934): 341. [3] According to _Paintings and Sculptures from the Kress Collection, Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951_, Washington, D.C., 1951: 148.