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Source Description
Heinrich Mücke, a student and later a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy, was born in Breslau (present-day Wroclaw, Poland). Like Eduard Bendemann, he executed a number of important royal and ecclesiastical commissions for wall paintings. Mücke was known for his deliberately archaizing treatment of religious subjects, which was meant to invoke what was seen as the purer piety of an earlier Christianity. A faint inscription on the scroll, "Ehre sei Gott in den Höhen und Friede auf Erden" (Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth), identifies the subject of this drawing as the angel announcing the birth of Christ to the shepherds (Luke 2:14). William Walters kept this drawing in an album that contained many works on sacred themes.
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Document identity
localId
36288
label
Christmas Angel Bearing Scroll
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obj
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drawing
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
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36288
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Christmas Angel Bearing Scroll
description
Heinrich Mücke, a student and later a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy, was born in Breslau (present-day Wroclaw, Poland). Like Eduard Bendemann, he executed a number of important royal and ecclesiastical commissions for wall paintings. Mücke was known for his deliberately archaizing treatment of religious subjects, which was meant to invoke what was seen as the purer piety of an earlier Christianity. A faint inscription on the scroll, "Ehre sei Gott in den Höhen und Friede auf Erden" (Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth), identifies the subject of this drawing as the angel announcing the birth of Christ to the shepherds (Luke 2:14). William Walters kept this drawing in an album that contained many works on sacred themes.
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1870 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1806-1891
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
drawings (visual works)
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1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
23.6
height
19.1
dimensionsRaw
H: 9 5/16 x W: 7 1/2 in. (23.6 x 19.1 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] lower left: H. Mücke
med
pencil on paper
creator_ids
2119
collection_ids
none
exhibition_ids
2832
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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