Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire

Provenance

San Giorgio in Alga, Venice, until 1806 or 1807.[1] Pivan collection, Venice, by 1934.[2] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); purchased 1950 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1952 to NGA. [1] Zanetti, Anton Maris, _Della pittura veneziana e delle oper pubbliche de' veneziani maestri_, Venice, 1771: 477 (reprinted Venice, 1972). The church and monastery were suppressed in 1806 and the works of art removed in 1807; Zorzi, Alvise, _Venezia scomparsa_, 2 vols., Venice, 1972: 2:405-406. [2] According to Pallucchini, Rodolfo, "Il pittore Francesco Polazzo," _Rivista di Venezia_ (1934): 341. [3] According to _Paintings and Sculptures from the Kress Collection, Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951_, Washington, D.C., 1951: 148. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/701.

Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire

Angeli, Giuseppe

c. 1740/1755

Accession Number

1952.5.70

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 174.6 x 264.8 cm (68 3/4 x 104 1/4 in.) | framed: 207 x 302.3 x 10.1 cm (81 1/2 x 119 x 4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection