Decoration of an Arch: Archangel with a Sword

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Artist: Eduard Jakob von Steinle (Austrian, Vienna 1810–1886 Frankfurt am Main)
Date: 1825–86
Medium: Watercolor over black chalk, gold paint; framing line in black chalk with reddish-orange watercolor along the top and right edges; two arched lines impressed in paper, lower left
Dimensions: 17 15/16 x 14 5/8 in. (45.5 x 37.2 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1964
Accession no.: 64.193.1

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Saint Agostino from Bulagajo, Perugia (San Agostino dalla parte del Bulagajo, Perugia)
Edward Jakob von Steinle
1829 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00011389
Christ on the Cross with Six Scenes from the Life of Christ
Edward Jakob von Steinle
ca. 1850 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022290
Mother and Child Praying at a Roadside Shrine
Edward Jakob von Steinle
1859 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022495
Study of the Head of St. Augustine, for the painting of the Madonna and Child with Saint Augustine and Bonifacius (1846)
Edward Jakob von Steinle
1846 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022783

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.