Angels

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Two angels with outstretched wings guide a group of children, maidens, and youths through a hilly landscape with plenty of flowers. Gold gilt suffuses the entire image. Charles Prendergast, Maurice's younger brother, was a unique artist-craftsman whose production of gessoed, gilded panels set him apart from other artists of his generation. His panels expressed a broad spiritual sensibility, with sources drawn from a wide range of Eastern and Western traditions—early Italian, Persian, Chinese, Byzantine, Egyptian, Coptic, Roman, and Etruscan—which he freely interpreted according to his "fancy."

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