The Infant Christ as Salvator Mundi

1650/1657

Bartolomeo Biscaino

Associated Names
Bartolomeo Biscaino

Artist, Genoese, 1629 - 1657

This is a drawing of a cherubic figure resting on a cloud. The image shows a small infant-like being reclined on a cluster of clouds, with rays of light emanating from behind. Surrounding the figure is an oval wreath with leafy patterns. The artwork is detailed and evokes classical imagery from renaissance or baroque styles.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.7 × 17.5 cm (8 1/8 × 6 7/8 in.), oval
    sheet: 21.4 × 17.8 cm (8 7/16 × 7 in.)
    mount: 45.7 × 32.4 cm (18 × 12 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.113.19

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 14

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. 14

Inscriptions

lower center in image: BAo BISo; by later hand, upper left of mount in graphite: 16 x 20; by later hand, lower right of mount in graphite: 14, rare / K11-; by later hand, verso in chalk: [itemized list with prices, not deciphered]; tracing of Christ Child; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 14

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