St. Michael and Satan

1775

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Benjamin West

Benjamin West

St. Michael and Satan

1775

Physical Qualities Oil on paper mounted on canvas, Framed: 57 1/4 x 41 x 4 1/4 in. (145.4 x 104.1 x 10.8 cm) Sight: 45 1/4 x 28 7/8 in. (114.9 x 73.3 cm)

Credit Line W. Clagett Emory Bequest Fund, in Memory of his Parents, William H. Emory of A and Martha B. Emory; Friends of the American Wing Fund; Harriet and Jeffrey Legum Fund; and purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of M. Carey Thomas, in Memory of Mary Elizabeth Garrett

Object Number 1999.67

The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1999; from Kyser Hollingsworth, Inc., Washington, D.C.; estate of James H. Ricau, 1993; James H. Ricau, Piermont, New York, by 1962; H. Knoedler and Company, New York, by 1957; Potter; from Christie's London, 1949 (sold anonymously)

Christie's London, 14 December 1949, no. 107.

Graham Gallery, New York, "Benjamin West," 1962, no. 13.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Benjamin West: American Painter at the English Court," 1989, no. 22.

BMA, 'New on View,' June 19-Oct. 6, 2002.

Millard F. Rogers, Jr. 'Benjamin West and the Caliph: Two Paintings from Fontill Abbey,' Apollo, 1966, p. 424, fig. 4.

Ruth S. Kraemer, "Drawings by Benjamin West and his Son Raphael Lamar West," New York, 1975, p. 10.

John Dillenberger, "Benjamin West: The Context of His Life's Work...," San Antonio, Texas, 1977, pp. 34,42, pl. 25.

Helmut von Erffa and Alan Staley, "The Paintings of Benjamin West [calalogue raisonné]," New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1986, no. 407 (illustration), p. 395 (illustration p. 85).

Richard York Gallery, "An American Gallery Volume VIII," 1997, Figure 1, ill.

Glenn McNatt, 'An Artful Amalgam,' The Baltimore Sun, July 2, 2002.

Inscribed: Recto: lower right, 'B. West/1776'; Verso: Number A5333 in several places on the strecher; Number 15 on the stretcher and reverse of support; 'PHOTO' stamped twice on strecher; label on side of strecher with numbers A5333 and 39.