The Archangel Michael Binding the Devil. 1777. Oil on canvas. 453.5 x 210.5 cms. Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
Phillip Medhurst
Wisdom from a Gnostic Sage
Tag: Benjamin West
Image | Jun 1, 2022
The Archangel Michael and the Dragon. 1797. Oil on canvas. 50 1/2 ins(128.3 cms) x 23 9/16 ins (59.8 cms). Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. This canvas was a design for a stained glass window commissioned for Fonthill Abbey; it was never made as a window, however.
Image | Jun 1, 2022
The woman clothed with the sun flees from the persecution of the dragon. Oil with pen and ink on canvas. 15 ½ × 11 ¼ inches (395 × 286 mms). Private collection.
Jun 1, 2022
Revealed Religion : Benjamin West. 096 of 100 Bible images
The Women clothed in the Sun. Oil on paper laid down on wood panel. c1797. 149 x 69 cms (58 11/16 x 27 3/16 ins); frame: 168.5 × 87.2 cms (66 5/16 × 34 5/16 ins). Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey. Probably a design for a stained-glass window at Fonthill Abbey.
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A Mighty Angel Stands upon the Land and upon the Sea. 1797. Oil on paper, mounted on panel. 21.5 x 31 ins; 54.61 x 78.74 cms. Location unknown.
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The Beast Rises Out Of The Sea. 1797. Painting. Private collection.
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Death on the Pale Horse (detail): The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 1796. Oil on canvas. Unframed: 23 3/8 × 50 5/8 ins (59.4 × 128.6 cms). Framed: 36 1/2 × 63 1/8 × 3 1/8 ins (92.7 × 160.3 × 7.9 cms). Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit.
Image | Jun 1, 2022
Death on the Pale Horse. 1796. Oil on canvas. Unframed: 23 3/8 × 50 5/8 ins (59.4 × 128.6 cms). Framed: 36 1/2 × 63 1/8 × 3 1/8 ins (92.7 × 160.3 × 7.9 cms). Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit.
Image | Jun 1, 2022
Death on the Pale Horse. 1817. Oil on canvas. 176 x 301 ins (447.0 x 764.5 cms). Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. This version is thought to be the artist’s final major work. West based it on the Book of Revelation 6:8, in which the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence—ravage […]
Image | May 31, 2022
Saint John the Divine called to write the Revelation. 1797. Oil on five sheets of paper mounted on canvas, itself mounted on wood. 57 7/8 × 26 1/2 ins (147 × 67.3 cms). The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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