The Jewish Angel by Georgio de Chirico, 1916. Oil on canvas.

From The Met’s title card:

The thin stretchers and measuring devices in de Chirico’s elaborate composition combine references to his own profession and to that of his father, who was a railroad engineer.

Note: De Chirico painted this in 1916! He was WAY ahead of Breton and the surrealists. In surrealism’s early days they artists revered de Chirico. Later Breton claimed that de Chirico had lost his way and the two never reconciled. I suspect this might have been due to Breton’s ego driving him to claim surrealism as his own invention rather than extend credit to de Chirico who was clearly a major founding force.

Photo taken on 10 August 2010 by yours truly.