ID: 700008163 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008163	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Landscape with Abraham and the Three Angels in the Valley of Mambre (drawing (visual work); Joseph Anton Koch (Austrian, 1768 - 1839) (Austrian Artist); 1797; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2009.8)

Note: Under the branches of a majestic oak tree, the Hebrew patriarch Abraham kneels as he recognizes the three angels who miraculously appeared to him in Canaan. Abraham's wife Sarah observes from the door of their humble dwelling while camels and sheep graze in the distance and shepherds tend to their flock. In the biblical passage (Genesis 18: 1-19), Abraham washes the feet of his visitors and offers them food. The angels then announce that the elderly couple will soon give birth to a son. Koch chooses to feature the narrative moment of the angels' apparition, and in his rendering he includes some standard iconographic references such as Abraham's flowing robes and long beard. Unlike previous artists such as Rembrandt, whose primary interest focused on the interaction of Abraham and his visitors, Koch selected this biblical scene to evoke a golden age of antiquity. The survival of the awesome oak in the center foreground emphasizes the eternal resonance of nature's grace and grandeur. As he also explored in similar drawings and paintings, Koch described the ancient biblical time of Abraham in the proposed drawing as a verdant and sweeping landscape, one truly consonent with the subject's theme of hospitality.

Titles:

Landscape with Abraham and the Three Angels in the Valley of Mambre (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Landscape with Abraham and the Three Angels at the Oak of Mambre (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1797

Creator Display:

Joseph Anton Koch (Austrian, 1768 - 1839) (Austrian Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

Koch, Joseph Anton (Austrian painter, engraver, and draftsman, 1768-1839) [500000663]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.8

Other: Creation: Italia [1000080] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Brown ink, heightened with white gouache

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	gouache (paint) [300070114]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

Dimensions: 54 x 75 cm (21 1/4 x 29 1/2 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Abraham [2108669]
	.....(Millard county (county), Utah (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	angels (spirits) [300379004]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, spirits (beings)) (AAT)

	Abraham [901000475]
	.....((Old Testament characters, Old Testament iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	camels (mammals) [300250139]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Artiodactyla (order), Camelidae (family)) (AAT)

	house [300005433]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, residential structures, dwellings) (AAT)

	Sarah [901000542]
	.....((Old Testament characters, Old Testament iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	sheep (genus) [300250284]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Artiodactyla (order), Bovidae (family)) (AAT)

	landscape (environment) [300008626]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Landscape with Abraham and the Three Angels in the Valley of Mambre	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Landscape with Abraham and the Three Angels at the Oak of Mambre	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)