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

Eugène Delacroix|Peter Paul Rubens

ca. 1820–22 · Graphite · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Eugène Delacroix|Peter Paul Rubens

Date

ca. 1820–22

Medium

Graphite

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 2013