Four Saints, 1762

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 44.4 x 28.9 cm (17 1/2 x 11 3/8 in.)

sheet: 49 x 33 cm (19 5/16 x 13 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Meyer, no. 3

Accession Number

1999.98.2

Artists / Makers

Johann Beheim (artist) Austrian, c. 1730 - after 1770

Franz Anton Maulbertsch (artist after) Austrian, 1724 - 1796

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Ant. Maulbersch invent.; lower right in plate: J. Beheim Sculp. et excud. à Vienae. 1762.; across bottom in plate: Maximus in Sanctis est parvulus ille Puellus.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: #683 / Zan; by later hand, lower lower left verso in graphite: Maulbertsch, Otto Franz / 1724 - 1796

Provenance

Wilhelm Soldan, Berlin, after 1950 (Lugt undescribed). (sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 4-5 June 1999, no. 5740); (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 1999 by NGA with funds contributed by The Ahmanson Foundation.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
David Carritt Limited, Artemis Group
Galerie Gerda Bassenge
Soldan, Wilhelm

Bibliography

1872: Meyer, Julius et al. Allegmeines Kunstler-Lexikon, unter Mitwirkung der namhaftesten Fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes. 3 vols. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1972-1885.