Angel Holding an Olive Branch by Memling in the Louvre, June 2014

Hans MEMLING
Seligenstadt, c. 1435 – Bruges, 1494

Angel Holding an Olive Branch, Emblem of Divine Peace
c. 1475–80
H. 0.16 m; W. 0.10 m

This is a fragment of the left wing of a portable triptych (right wing intact: Angel with a Sword, Wallace Collection, London; center: Pietà by Rogier van der Weyden, lost) that belonged to Margaret of Austria (inventories of 1516 and 1523/24).

Acquired from a private collection in Neuilly, 1993
Department of Paintings
R.F. 1993-1

Text from: cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=24010&langue=en