Both a portrait and an allegory, Angel depicts Thayer's eleven-year-old daughter Mary, who became the recurring figure of his most important work. Thayer described art as "a no-man's- land of immortal beauty where every step leads to God". This was the first in a gallery of chaste, lovely young women, usually winged as the personification of virginal, spiritual beauty. Rendered with extraordinary tenderness, it stands as one of the defining images of American Gilded Age idealism.

Currently on public display in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. 

Format & Paper: Available as a museum-quality Giclée print on Hahnemühle German Etching, a heavyweight, acid-free cotton paper that captures the luminous warmth and delicate sfumato of Thayer's ethereal brushwork.

Size: 70 × 100 cm