A pen and brown ink drawing showing Augustine of Hippo, mitred as a bishop, borne among clouds and attending angels, by the Austrian artist Johann Jacob Eybelwieser, active circa 1667 to 1744. The drawing follows the standard Western devotional convention of Augustine as bishop and Doctor of the Church. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 2010.160, purchased in 2010 through the C. G. Boerner Gift.
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Origins
Attributed ToJohann Jacob Eybelwieser left a small surviving body of work, and drawings securely attributed to him are uncommon outside Austrian collections, which makes this sheet one of relatively few examples reaching an American museum. Little else about his life or training is well documented beyond his active dates in the later seventeenth and earlier eighteenth centuries. 1 Physical Form
MediumPen and ink drawing, Johann Jacob Eybelwieser, Metropolitan Museum of Art 2010.160 1 Classification
Object TypeDrawing (Pencil, Chalk, Ink or Wash) 1 Medium (class) Connections
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Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Source Saint Augustine on Clouds Surrounded by Angels, accession 2010.160 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Depicts
The drawing's directly named subject per the museum's own title, showing Augustine mitred as a bishop among clouds and angels, matching the standard bishop-and-book iconography the corroborating Wikipedia record independently describes for him.
Source Saint Augustine on Clouds Surrounded by Angels, accession 2010.160 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Additional Source Augustine of Hippo (Wikipedia)
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Also in Arts and Music Atlas: the author of this subject.
Source The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access API: Metropolitan Museum of Art object record 388397artistDisplayNameQuote, artistDisplayName
"artistDisplayName": "Johann Jacob Eybelwieser"
Sources
1. Saint Augustine on Clouds Surrounded by Angels, accession 2010.160 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of Artcatalogue record, medium/object-type descriptionQuote, catalogue record, medium/object-type description
A pen and brown ink drawing showing Augustine of Hippo, mitred as a bishop, borne among clouds and attending angels, by the Austrian artist Johann Jacob Eybelwieser, active circa 1667 to 1744.
Augustine of Hippo (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDepicts: Augustine of HippoQuote, Depicts: Augustine of Hippo
Augustine is traditionally shown in Western art as a mitred bishop holding a book, sometimes with a pierced or flaming heart.
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