Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Wilderness (1 Kings 19:4-8)

1687–1749

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over traces of black chalk, on light brown paper
Dimensions: 10 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (26.3 x 22.3 cm)
Collection no.: 53.169
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Alessandro Magnasco. Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Wilderness (1 Kings 19:4-8). Alessandro Magnasco; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1953. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Wilderness (1 Kings 19:4-8) — Alessandro Magnasco. 1687–1749.

Medium: Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over traces of black chalk, on light brown paper. Dimensions: 10 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (26.3 x 22.3 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1953.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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