Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
An angel named by an hour
Most titles in this catalogue name an angel by rank, by office, or by the scene he interrupts. This one names him by a time of day. The Evening Angel assigns neither an order of the celestial hierarchy nor a task: no announcement, no rescue, no weighing, no guard. Evening is a setting, and the figure takes its identity from it. That is a nineteenth-century habit rather than a devotional one, and the record shows it in the filing.
What the record holds
The catalogue dates the work to 1848 and gives Alexandre Cabanel, a French painter, with Academicism as the style term. The recorded dimensions are 19 x 23 cm. The measured colour family is yellow. The location on record is Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France.
Where the record files it
The catalogue's subject tags for this entry are Cultural Heritage, Mythology and Fantasy. There is no religious tag on it at all. An angel filed under mythology has been moved out of a system of ranks and into a repertoire of motifs, which is roughly what happened to the figure in academic painting: the wings survive, the office does not. This is one of two entries in the catalogue held at the Musée Fabre, and one of three by this painter.
Sources
3 references- Alexandre Cabanel — Wikipedia
Alexandre Cabanel (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ(ə) kabanɛl]; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He wa
- Cabanel, Alexandre — Getty ULAN
French painter, 1823-1889
- The Evening Angel (Wikidata Q117293943)
description: painting by Alexandre Cabanel; inception: 1848-00-00; dimensions: +19 × +23 cm; collection: Musée Fabre
