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.
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.
