Saint Joseph in Half-Length, Holding the Christ Child

1650/1657

Bartolomeo Biscaino

Artist, Genoese, 1629 - 1657

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper, mounted on an album sheet

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 9.8 × 10.9 cm (3 7/8 × 4 5/16 in.)
    mount: 17.9 × 14.9 cm (7 1/16 × 5 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.113.17

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 31


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert and Bertina Suida Manning, Forest Hills, NY; by descent Alessandra Manning and Kurt Dolnier, Watertown, CT, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: no. 31

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper verso in pen and brown ink: [not deciphered}... Biscaino... ; by later hand, upper left of mount in graphite: 16x [crossed out] / 14 1/4 x 19 1/4; by later hand, lower center of album sheet in graphite: B. P. Gr. vol XXI pag 197 No. 31.


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