A Prophet Addressed by an Angel

Sebastiano del Piombo (Venetian, 1485 - 1547)

1517/1519

Medium
black chalk with gray and brown wash above four stylus arcs at bottom right, heightened with white and squared with red chalk on blue paper, laid down on late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century mount
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
overall: 32 × 25 cm (12 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the National Gallery of Art