Art, literature & history
The Angel in the Sun Calling the Birds of Prey
1546/1556
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29.5 × 21.5 cm (11 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3706
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean Duvet. The Angel in the Sun Calling the Birds of Prey. Jean Duvet; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Duvet,_The_Angel_in_the_Sun_Calling_the_Birds_of_Prey,_1546-1556,_NGA_6824.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Angel in the Sun Calling the Birds of Prey — Jean Duvet. 1546/1556.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29.5 × 21.5 cm (11 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3706. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.