An entry with almost nothing attached

This is close to the minimum a record can hold. What the catalogue has is a title, a painter, a nationality, a style term and one measured colour family. Everything a page like this could otherwise say — when, where, how large — is unavailable, and inventing any of it would put a false year on a public page. So none of it is stated.

What the record holds

The catalogue gives Charles Le Brun, filed as French and Baroque. The measured colour family is violet, which is rare here: three of the 224 works on this site carry it. No date of creation is recorded, no location is recorded, and no dimensions are recorded, so none of the three is stated here. The subject fields class the work under mythology and fantasy alongside its cultural heritage category.

The title is the whole of the evidence

Which makes this a good place to say what a title can and cannot establish about rank. It establishes that the subject is the fall, that the falling figures are plural, and that they were angels before the event. It establishes nothing about which orders they came from, because the nine orders classify the host that remained and there is no rank for a fallen angel. Four entries in this catalogue carry this exact title. This is the one where the title is all there is, and it is still enough to place the subject.